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[The Half-Pregnant Law]

Item number (ISN):

422506

Series title:

[Sunday Morning : excerpt]

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Item number (ISN):

422506

Type of material:

Sound recordings

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

GRAY, Elizabeth

Accession:

2010-0012

Media:

Sound

Part:

1 of 1

Release date:

1987-02-15

Production company:

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Production credit:

producer/reporter, Elizabeth Gray; host, Linden MacIntyre

Description:

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Documentary about Canada’s abortion law. It reviews the past 17 years of Section 251 of the Criminal Code. Interviewees include: a senior counsel with the federal Department of Justice; Dr. David Carr of the McMaster University medical centre’s therapeutic abortion committee; Dr. Clarence Ginther, the vice-president of clinical development at Calgary Foothills Hospital; Dr. Nikki Culodny of the Morgentaler Clinic; a 27-year-old single woman who was refused an abortion by a doctor at Calgary Foothills Hospital; Dr. Frances Wren of Calgary General Hospital; Dr. Henry Morgentaler’s lawyer Morris Manning; and Dr. Marian Powell. There is actuality of a woman undergoing an ultrasound at the Morgentaler clinic in Toronto, having a discussion with a doctor there and undergoing an abortion. There is also audio of a man opposed to abortion pleading with another man he has seen leaving the clinic. Subjects discussed include: the attitudes of doctors to performing abortion; the awkwardness of therapeutic abortion clinics; the decision by some doctors to stop performing abortions because they were not allowed to extra bill for it; the treatment women receive in the Morgentaler clinic and elsewhere; and access to therapeutic abortions. <29mn 14s>

Language:

English

Notes:

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1. Second of two tracks on this CD.

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Vault ISN:

508012

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

2008AV

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

CD

Duration:

48:41

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

ORIG
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Conditions of access:

Open

Copyright status:

Under copyright

Copyright owner:

copyright owner : Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Reproduction access:

with written permission of copyright owner : no donor restrictionsThe Canadian Broadcasting Corporation holds copyright on the completed broadcasts.

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