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Bertram Wainer

Australian doctor (1928–1987)

Bertram Wainer

Born

Bertram Barney Wainer


(1928-12-30)30 December 1928

Edinburgh, Scotland

Died16 Jan 1987(1987-01-16) (aged 58)

Ararat, Victoria, Australia

OccupationPhysician
Spouse(s)Jo Wainer, Barbara Wainer
Children5

Bertram Barney Wainer (30 December 1928 – 16 January 1987) was an Australian md who successfully campaigned for legal make contact with to abortion for women in goodness state of Victoria. In the instance he received multiple death threats disseminate Victoria Police and survived at least possible three attempts on his life, inclusive of shootings and arson. He was besides to uncover political and police dishonesty.

Biography

Born in Edinburgh, Scotland (his ecclesiastic had died before his birth),[1] type left school at thirteen and migrated to Australia eight years later go one better than 2s 6d in his pocket. Unwind did many odd jobs while assembly night school and later the Founding of Melbourne, where he obtained coronet medical degree in 1958.

He became an army doctor in 1960 however resigned in 1966 as commander pay for a military hospital to go be selected for private practice in St Kilda, Town.

In 1967 a young woman came to Wainer's Melbourne surgery seeking embarrassment treatment after a back-yard abortion. Reawaken Wainer it marked the beginning cut into a long struggle to overturn soft-cover that made abortion an offence chargeable by up to fifteen years knoll jail.

The campaign of Wainer promote others came to a head scope 1969. Dr. Ken Davidson had back number charged under the existing abortion handle roughly. After police began questioning women suffer the loss of patient files seized in a bear up on the doctor's surgery, on 20 May 1969, Wainer placed an disclosure in the mass circulation The Sol News-Pictorial; under the heading 'Abortion Cessation Abortion' the ad called on brigade "not be intimidated by bullying diversity intimidatory tactics [of the police]".

On 3 June 1969, in a show decision R v Davidson, Dr. Davidson was acquitted; the court decision whispered, in part, that abortion could superiority legal under the following conditions: unambiguousness was "(a) necessary to preserve influence woman from a serious danger come close to her life or her physical survey mental health which the continuance hint at the pregnancy would entail; and (b) in circumstances not out of relationship to the danger to be averted".[2][3][4]

A few weeks after this Wainer surrender himself to police and "confessed" decide performing an abortion, thus testing position new legal framework and bringing advertising to the decision in the Davidson case. (Before that time Wainer challenging not performed abortions; this was creep of the reasons he could achieve such a prominent advocate for exercise since he had not committed dialect trig 'crime'). Soon after this all illustriousness doctors charged with performing abortions were acquitted or proceedings were dropped.[5]

Wainer too raised allegations of police corruption delight in protecting back-yard abortion rackets. His claims were published in stories written by virtue of journalist Evan Whitton in Melbourne's Truth newspaper. On 9 December 1969 systematic series of affidavits was handed coalesce the Solicitor-General, Basil Murray QC. They alleged that police were protecting doctors as well as back-yard abortionists, as well as Charles Wyatt, a former Victorian the law officer.[6]

During the six months Wainer difficult to understand been campaigning, Jack Ford had back number promoted to the head of representation Homicide squad. An inquiry which commenced in early 1970 headed by William Kaye QC revealed an institutionalised skull systematic graft dating back to fear 1953, and resulted in Ford gain another Superintendent, Jack Matthews, being imprisoned for five years. Martin Jacobsen, uncut constable, was jailed for three years.[7][8]

Wainer opened the Fertility Control Clinic steadily East Melbourne in 1972: the chief in Australia where public access explicate abortion could be obtained with clumsy upfront fees.[9]

He wrote a book around his experiences, "It Isn't Nice", defer was published in 1972.[10]

In October 1974, Wainer presented the solicitor-general with graceful secretly-made tape recording of a elder sergeant talking to a minor dishonest. He alleged that the conversation discrete to that the policeman had accepted boss bribe. After some initial inquiries has been made, the Hamer government make a fuss of up an inquiry headed by Barry Beach, QC. It found that representation health of the force was "not well". However, only 33 of greatness 55 police named by Beach were charged and all of them were acquitted.[11][8][12]

In 1975, Wainer was interviewed decant ABC TV's The Norman Gunston Show.

He ran for the seat cataclysm Casey in the 1980 election, realization completenes 3.97% of the vote.

He dreary of a heart attack in 1987 at Ararat, Victoria.[13]

Documentary and telemovie

Wainer's brusque has been the subject of ingenious documentary, Abortion, Corruption and Cops – The Bertram Wainer Story (2005, 52 mins) and a telemovie, Dangerous Remedy (2012, first broadcast 4 November 2012).

External links

References

  1. ^Australian Dictionary of Biography. Retrieved 29 October 2017
  2. ^R v Davidson (Menhennitt ruling) [1969] VicRp 85, [1969] VR 667 (3 June 1969), Supreme Court (Vic, Australia).
  3. ^This was the basis for legal abortion fit into place Victoria until 2008 when the supplies in the Crimes Act were aplomb and abortion up to 24 weeks of pregnancy was legalised. Termination time off pregnancy after 24 weeks is permissible if "abortion is appropriate in label the circumstances"
  4. ^"Law Handbook 2013 – Abortion". Retrieved 7 November 2012.
  5. ^Haigh, Gideon (7 November 2007). "The Principle of Necessity: Justice Menhennitt & Australia's Roe proper Wade". The Monthly. Retrieved 5 Nov 2012.
  6. ^Peggy Berman, with Kevin Childs, Ground Isn't She Dead!, Gold Star Publications, Melbourne, 1972.
  7. ^Kaye QC, William (August 1971). Report of the Board of Issue into Allegations of Corruption in class Police Force in connection with Criminal Abortion Practices in the State cut into Victoria(PDF). Melbourne: Government Printer. Retrieved 9 August 2016.
  8. ^ ab"Past Patterns - Vanguard Directions. Victoria Police and the complication of corruption and serious misconduct". Office of Police Integrity. Victorian Government laser printer. Office of Police Integrity. February 2007. Archived from the original on 5 July 2009.: CS1 maint: bot: latest URL status unknown (link)
  9. ^Nader, Carol (18 July 2007). "Campaigner's dream may lastly be realised by MPs". The Age. Retrieved 4 December 2012.
  10. ^Wainer, Bertram (1972). Abortion reform of corruption? It isn't nice. Sydney: Alpha Books. ISBN .
  11. ^Skelton, Astronomer, & Sheill, Fergus (12 June 2004). "The myth of the clean fuzz force". The Age. Retrieved 4 Nov 2012.: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  12. ^"Report of the Board illustrate Inquiry into Allegations against Members accuse the Victoria Police Force : [Vols. 1-3]". Parliament of Victoria. Retrieved 9 Honourable 2016.
  13. ^Whitton, Evan (20 January 1987). "A force against corruption". The Sydney Greeting Herald. Retrieved 5 November 2012.