New Zealand. Parliament. Hospitals Amendment Bill 1974

Date: 20 May 1975

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP/1975/2057-F

Description: Demonstrators at a rally at parliament opposing the Hospitals Amendment Bill of Dr G A Wall. Photograph taken 20 May 1975 by an Evening Post photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35 mm negative strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate film negative, 35mm

Date: 20 May 1975

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP/1975/2059-F

Description: Demonstrators with banners at a rally at parliament opposing the Hospitals Amendment Bill of Dr G A Wall. The banners read: Repeal the Abortion Laws Abortion Action Committee (partially obscured); Abortion a right not a crime; Women unite, abortion our right; Abortion - our right to choose; O'Brien voted for [obscured]; Free abortion every woman's right; We oppose the hospitals amendment bill; Auckland clinic yes! Australia no!; and, One Woolnough is not enough. Photograph taken 20 May 1975 by an Evening Post photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35 mm negative strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate film negative, 35mm

Date: 1973

From: Women's National Abortion Action Campaign (N.Z.): [Ephemera of quarto size concerning abortion in New Zealand, 1970-1989]

Reference: Eph-B-ABORTION-WONAAC-1973

Description: Contains pro-abortion material produced by WONAAC. Fliers include notices about: Protest against Hospitals Amendment Bill 1973 Other related material may be found at subject location BIRTH CONTROL Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset prints and mimeographs, sizes varying up to 330 mm.

Date: 1974

From: Women's National Abortion Action Campaign (N.Z.): [Ephemera of quarto size concerning abortion in New Zealand, 1970-1989]

Reference: Eph-B-ABORTION-WONAAC-1974

Description: Contains pro-abortion material produced by WONAAC. Fliers include notices about: Jessica Star [Starr] speaking tour of New Zealand 14-26 July 1974 Hospitals Amendment Bill Submission to the New Zealand Parliamentary Committee on Women's Rights. February 1974 Lucinda Cisler. "On abortion and abortion law". A WONAAC reprint (previously printed in the USA 1969) Stella Browne. "The right to abortion". A WONAAC reprint (previously printed in London 1935) Other related material may be found at subject location BIRTH CONTROL Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset prints and mimeographs, sizes varying up to 330 mm.

Date: 1977

From: Women's National Abortion Action Campaign (N.Z.): [Ephemera of quarto size concerning abortion in New Zealand, 1970-1989]

Reference: Eph-B-ABORTION-WONAAC-1977

Description: Contains pro-abortion material produced by WONAAC. Fliers include notices about: March in protest at the second reading of the Anti-Abortion Bill Danger to women's rights; Commission says No to abortion. Protest against the report of the Royal Commission; rally at the opening of Parliament, 19 May [1977] Yellow flier March July 8; oppose Royal Commission. Assemble Bunny St 6.30 pm Oppose the new abortion bill. March on Sept 19, Pigeon Park Women; stop MPs restricting your right to abortion. Rally at Parliament. Second reading, 11 October [1977] Women; stop MPs restricting abortion rights. Oppose the anti-abortion bill. March 14 Dec [1977] Assemble Pidgeon [Pigeon] Park Oppose repressive abortion laws; throw out the legislation; keep the Clinic open. Rally Friday Dec 16 [1977] (2 copies) Abortion; women must have the right to choose (opinion of Whetu Tirikatene-Sullivan) Why abortion is a woman's right; o le faamutaina o le ma'itaga o so'o se fafine - o le filifiliga to tino lava le a le fafine ta'ito'atasi [October 1977] (Yellow flier partly in Samoan) (2 copies), plus one song sheet including words for "It's our choice", "Not the church and not the state", "The song of Bernadette" [ie the same as "The knitting needle bill"] Other related material may be found at subject location BIRTH CONTROL Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset prints and mimeographs, sizes varying up to 330 mm.

Date: 1974-1981

From: Earl, Nicky, 1942?- : Papers relating to women's issues

Reference: MS-Papers-9145-18

Description: Includes: WONAAC material relating to abortion tribunal and conference, 1974; 58th NZLP Conference (Health remits); Women's rights and political action (Seminar to discuss losses, gains and goals for women in NZ), 1974; National Advisory Council on the employment of women (paper by Elizabeth Orr); Hospital Amendment Bill (press release from the Committee to oppose the Bill), 1974; Advisory Committee on Women's Affairs, news sheet 19, Dec 1981 Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1974

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP-Ethics-Demonstrations-Abortion-02

Description: A large group of Auckland women on the steps of Parliament protesting against Dr Gerald Wall's Hospitals Amendment Bill. Photographed by an Evening Post staff photographer in 1974. In May 1974 a private abortion clinic opened in Auckland. Gerald Wall's Hospital Amendment Bill was an attempt to restrict abortions to public hospitals and thus outlaw private clinics. Though Parliament passed the bill it was never enacted due to an error in it's drafting. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 20.5 x 17.5 cm