Report of the Committee of Inquiry into the Various Aspects of the Problem of Abortion in New Zealand

Name: Report of the Committee of Inquiry into the Various Aspects of the Problem of Abortion in New Zealand
Author: D. G. (David Gervan) McMillan

by D. G. (David Gervan) McMillan, New Zealand. Committee of Inquiry into various aspects of the Problem of Abortion in New Zealand

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Produced by Jonathan Ah Kit, Mark C. Orton, Victoria University of Wellington College of Education (Gender and Women's Studies Programme) and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net

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2008-10-27

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Public domain in the USA.

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Abortion -- New Zealand

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D. G. (David Gervan) McMillan

1904–1951

A doctor-turned-politician from New Zealand, he brought first-hand knowledge of rural life and public health into public service. His career was cut short in 1951, but he is remembered for combining medicine, farming, and politics in a remarkably practical life.

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New Zealand. Committee of Inquiry into various aspects of the Problem of Abortion in New Zealand

Created at the height of a fierce national debate, this New Zealand inquiry helped shape the country’s abortion law in the late 1970s. Its report is remembered less as the work of a single writer than as the voice of a government-appointed commission whose recommendations had lasting political impact.

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