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Wainer

BERMAN, Margaret

Date of birth: 
1923
Biographical notes: 

Margaret (Peggy) Berman (1923-2002)

Margaret Berman. The Age
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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.

Protestors outside the East Melbourne clinic, 1976.  Reproduced in The Age, 28 O
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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.

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East Melbourne, Wellington Parade 118, Rolyat

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Large two storey house, currently used for a medical clinic.

History: 

The original house built for W.T. Trollope, solicitor, was single storey. The Rate Books up until 1867 give his name as the owner and occupier, and then the owner becomes T.W. Trollope, also a solicitor, until 1881. During the latter's ownership the house was rented out. It would appear that the two owners were in fact one and the same. Other members of W.T.

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The man who brought abortion out of the dark

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Newspaper clipping: A life of Bertram Wainer by his widow, Jo Wainer.

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The man who saved women

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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, and his receptionist Peggy Berman, who blew the whistle.

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