Collection or topic
Wainer
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6 records and collections
Person
BERMAN, Margaret
Margaret (Peggy) Berman (1923-2002) Peggy Berman was a strong, intelligent and determined woman. She had a tough start to life, an illegitimate child at a Catholic Children’s Home in Broadmeadows. From there, she was taken in by her Irish grandparents and was sent to the Sisters...
Story
Dr Bertram Wainer and the Struggle for the Right to Abortion
On 24 June 2022, in the case of Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organisation the U.S. Supreme Court overturned its 1973 ruling, made as result of the now famous Roe v Wade case, that gave a fundamental right to women to access abortion under the Fourteenth Amendment. Justice Alito...
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East Melbourne, Wellington Parade 116 - Burchett
1864. MCC BR: Jas. Prince, for self a house. 1866. James Prince - owner/occupier. Brick, 8 rooms. 1870. Prince - owner. Edgar Sprague - occupier. Brick, 11 rooms and iron house in rear. 1978. (On card as 1878) Name mentioned: Dr. Wainer - occupier. Classified Historical Register,...
Place
East Melbourne, Wellington Parade 118, Rolyat
Large two storey house, currently used for a medical clinic.
Collection item
The man who brought abortion out of the dark
Newspaper clipping: A life of Bertram Wainer by his widow, Jo Wainer.
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The man who saved women
Article featuring Dr. Bertram Wainer, the leading abortion law reformer, who founded the Fertility Clinic in Wellington Parade. The article also refers to Dr. Jim Troup, a doctor conducting illegal abortions at his rooms in Hoddle Street while paying the police protection money,...