In researching the series, Amelia Oberhardt heard a shocking story about a Queensland abortion raid that showed another side of how women were treated in Australia’s not too distant past.
Amelia finds out more about the options women had when faced with an unplanned pregnancy, the road to legalising abortion, and what happened one Monday morning in May 1985.
Featured:
- Caroline de Costa – Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the College of Medicine at James Cook University
- Lorraine Smit – former counsellor and assistant, Children by Choice
- Judy Petroeschevsky – former counsellor, educator and co-ordinator, Children by Choice
- David Grunmann – Queensland surgeon
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