Abortion -- New Zealand

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Poster featuring a photograph of a woman above the words 'Fight for the right to legal abortion'. Credit at the bottom reads 'Published by Working Women's Alliance, P O Box 9012, Wellington'. White background with slate-blue photograph/text.

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Nergis Narayan is a social worker and counsellor. Nergis interviewed three colleagues involved with abortion care provision via the Capital and Coast District Health Board.

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Dr Margaret Pack is the Counselling Coordinator at Te Mahoe Clinic, Wellington, and the commissioner of the Oral History of Abortion Care in New Zealand project. Dr Pack's oral history interviews cover a range of perspectives from people currently and historically involved in the provision of abortion care in the Wellington region, including counsellors and social workers, nurse/midwives and operating doctors.

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Nergis Narayan is a social worker and counsellor. Nergis interviewed three colleagues involved with abortion care provision via the Capital and Coast District Health Board.

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Dr Jane MacDonald is a Senior Research Fellow within the Centre for Women's Health Research at Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington. She has been a sexual health physician with clinical experience in women's reproductive health for 25 years.

Dr Macdonald's interviews comprise conversations with three operating doctors involved in abortion provision at Parkview Clinic, Wellington, and in other areas.

Scope and Contents From the Series: Chris Hannah is the Clinical Manager at the Community Clinic, Bright Street, Tairāwhiti. Chris's interviews comprise conversations with five different contributors to the work of providing timely, accessible and culturally congruent abortion care in an isolated regional setting since 2009. Prior to the Community Clinic beginning an in-house first trimester abortion service women had to travel out of district to the Auckland Medical Aid Centre, The Terrace Clinic at Hawkes Bay...

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Dr Jane MacDonald is a Senior Research Fellow within the Centre for Women's Health Research at Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington. She has been a sexual health physician with clinical experience in women's reproductive health for 25 years.

Dr Macdonald's interviews comprise conversations with three operating doctors involved in abortion provision at Parkview Clinic, Wellington, and in other areas.

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Dr Jane MacDonald is a Senior Research Fellow within the Centre for Women's Health Research at Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington. She has been a sexual health physician with clinical experience in women's reproductive health for 25 years.

Dr Macdonald's interviews comprise conversations with three operating doctors involved in abortion provision at Parkview Clinic, Wellington, and in other areas.

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Dr Margaret Pack is the Counselling Coordinator at Te Mahoe Clinic, Wellington, and the commissioner of the Oral History of Abortion Care in New Zealand project. Dr Pack's oral history interviews cover a range of perspectives from people currently and historically involved in the provision of abortion care in the Wellington region, including counsellors and social workers, nurse/midwives and operating doctors.

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Nergis Narayan is a social worker and counsellor. Nergis interviewed three colleagues involved with abortion care provision via the Capital and Coast District Health Board.

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Dr Margaret Pack is the Counselling Coordinator at Te Mahoe Clinic, Wellington, and the commissioner of the Oral History of Abortion Care in New Zealand project. Dr Pack's oral history interviews cover a range of perspectives from people currently and historically involved in the provision of abortion care in the Wellington region, including counsellors and social workers, nurse/midwives and operating doctors.

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Dr Margaret Pack is the Counselling Coordinator at Te Mahoe Clinic, Wellington, and the commissioner of the Oral History of Abortion Care in New Zealand project. Dr Pack's oral history interviews cover a range of perspectives from people currently and historically involved in the provision of abortion care in the Wellington region, including counsellors and social workers, nurse/midwives and operating doctors.

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Dr Margaret Pack is the Counselling Coordinator at Te Mahoe Clinic, Wellington, and the commissioner of the Oral History of Abortion Care in New Zealand project. Dr Pack's oral history interviews cover a range of perspectives from people currently and historically involved in the provision of abortion care in the Wellington region, including counsellors and social workers, nurse/midwives and operating doctors.

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Dr Margaret Pack is the Counselling Coordinator at Te Mahoe Clinic, Wellington, and the commissioner of the Oral History of Abortion Care in New Zealand project. Dr Pack's oral history interviews cover a range of perspectives from people currently and historically involved in the provision of abortion care in the Wellington region, including counsellors and social workers, nurse/midwives and operating doctors.

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Dr Margaret Pack is the Counselling Coordinator at Te Mahoe Clinic, Wellington, and the commissioner of the Oral History of Abortion Care in New Zealand project. Dr Pack's oral history interviews cover a range of perspectives from people currently and historically involved in the provision of abortion care in the Wellington region, including counsellors and social workers, nurse/midwives and operating doctors.

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Dr Margaret Pack is the Counselling Coordinator at Te Mahoe Clinic, Wellington, and the commissioner of the Oral History of Abortion Care in New Zealand project. Dr Pack's oral history interviews cover a range of perspectives from people currently and historically involved in the provision of abortion care in the Wellington region, including counsellors and social workers, nurse/midwives and operating doctors.

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Dr Margaret Pack is the Counselling Coordinator at Te Mahoe Clinic, Wellington, and the commissioner of the Oral History of Abortion Care in New Zealand project. Dr Pack's oral history interviews cover a range of perspectives from people currently and historically involved in the provision of abortion care in the Wellington region, including counsellors and social workers, nurse/midwives and operating doctors.

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Dr Margaret Pack is the Counselling Coordinator at Te Mahoe Clinic, Wellington, and the commissioner of the Oral History of Abortion Care in New Zealand project. Dr Pack's oral history interviews cover a range of perspectives from people currently and historically involved in the provision of abortion care in the Wellington region, including counsellors and social workers, nurse/midwives and operating doctors.

Scope and Contents From the Series: Chris Hannah is the Clinical Manager at the Community Clinic, Bright Street, Tairāwhiti. Chris's interviews comprise conversations with five different contributors to the work of providing timely, accessible and culturally congruent abortion care in an isolated regional setting since 2009. Prior to the Community Clinic beginning an in-house first trimester abortion service women had to travel out of district to the Auckland Medical Aid Centre, The Terrace Clinic at Hawkes Bay...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Chris Hannah is the Clinical Manager at the Community Clinic, Bright Street, Tairāwhiti. Chris's interviews comprise conversations with five different contributors to the work of providing timely, accessible and culturally congruent abortion care in an isolated regional setting since 2009. Prior to the Community Clinic beginning an in-house first trimester abortion service women had to travel out of district to the Auckland Medical Aid Centre, The Terrace Clinic at Hawkes Bay...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Chris Hannah is the Clinical Manager at the Community Clinic, Bright Street, Tairāwhiti. Chris's interviews comprise conversations with five different contributors to the work of providing timely, accessible and culturally congruent abortion care in an isolated regional setting since 2009. Prior to the Community Clinic beginning an in-house first trimester abortion service women had to travel out of district to the Auckland Medical Aid Centre, The Terrace Clinic at Hawkes Bay...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Chris Hannah is the Clinical Manager at the Community Clinic, Bright Street, Tairāwhiti. Chris's interviews comprise conversations with five different contributors to the work of providing timely, accessible and culturally congruent abortion care in an isolated regional setting since 2009. Prior to the Community Clinic beginning an in-house first trimester abortion service women had to travel out of district to the Auckland Medical Aid Centre, The Terrace Clinic at Hawkes Bay...

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Dr Margaret Pack is the Counselling Coordinator at Te Mahoe Clinic, Wellington, and the commissioner of the Oral History of Abortion Care in New Zealand project. Dr Pack's oral history interviews cover a range of perspectives from people currently and historically involved in the provision of abortion care in the Wellington region, including counsellors and social workers, nurse/midwives and operating doctors.

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Laminated colour poster with a tan background and the bold black headline: 'Oppose the Royal Commission'. Includes photographic images of several protest marches featuring the banners 'Votes for women' and 'Abortion democratic right'. The years '1893' and '1977' are overlaid in bold red. Text at the bottom states '1893-1977: The Struggle Continues!' and in small print: 'Published by the New Zealand University Students' Association (Inc.) P.O. Box 9047, Wellington.'

Content Description This series of 21 oral history recordings documents some of the history of abortion care in New Zealand over the past 20-30 years, from the providers’ perspectives. The collection also includes a digitised file of clippings on the history of Parkview Clinic, Wellington, and 2 pages of photographs relating to the clinic. The participants included came forward to offer their oral histories after the project was advertised in the Abortion Providers Group Aotearoa New Zealand...

Scope and Contents The Parkview Clinic Press File was loaned to Tapuaka for digitisation by Dame Margaret Sparrow in 2023. It contains clippings relating to the development and working life of the Parkview Clinic in Newtown, Wellington (1980-2000), as well as more general material relating to abortion provision within the Greater Wellington Region.The press file covers the period 1977-2016. Most clippings are taken from the Dominion and Evening Post newspapers, with other snippets from Salient, the...

Scope and Contents This collection was donated by Margaret Bailey in two accessions over 2007. Publications by John Bailey were catalogued into the Library's book collection e.g. 'Computer programs for quantum chemistry ' by John Bailey, Chemistry Division, Dept. of Scientific and Industrial Research, 1967 [callmark QD462.6 D38 B154 C]. Box 1. Items 1-11 Black folder labelled QA2: Emission Spectra. This is a 48-page report on an experiment to give an introduction to the techniques and principles...

Scope and Contents Broadsheet featuring six hand-lettered verses of a satirical song, 'The Knitting Needle Bill or The Trip Abroad', and music notation. The song is a parody of the music hall song 'She was poor but she was honest' describing the difficulty getting an abortion in New Zealand. The tune of 'God defend New Zealand' is indicated for the later verses. Also includes drawings of man with an erection pursuing a woman and a woman in a bathtub with various objects associated with self-induced abortions,...

Scope and Contents Black and white doubled-sided poster with some water staining.Side one features the hand-lettered statement 'We must fight restrictive abortion laws', below which is a series of cartoon panels depicting oppressive government actions, starting with 'They've frozen our wages!' and finishing with 'Now they won't allow us the most personal right of all - the right to control our own bodies'.Side two features the text 'Published by the Working Women's Alliance for...