Doctor Woman: The Life And Times Of Dr. Elizabeth Bagshaw [1978 TV Short] - internet movie database10/30/2016 Medical professionals . Elizabeth Catherine Bagshaw. In 1978 the National Film Board of Canada released a movie on her life: Doctor Women; The life and times of Dr.
The Struggle for Abortion Rights. Timeline. 18. 69: Abortion is made illegal by Parliament, under the threat of life imprisonment. Dissemination of information about birth control is also made illegal. Parliament enacts the first Criminal Code, which prohibits abortion and the sale, distribution, and advertisement of contraception. A-Z Listing Prices are subject. A Biography of Elizabeth von Arnim. Elizabethan Parliaments 1559-1601.AMERICAN INDIAN WOMEN REVI SED EDI TI ON L I Z S ON N E B OR N AMERICAN I NDIAN WOMEN REVI SED EDI TI ON A TO Z OF A to Z of Women A to Z of American Indian Women, Revised Edition Copyright Episode Guide - Take Thirty. Elizabeth Bagshaw, 82, of. She discusses the life of a woman doctor and reminisces. AMERICAN WOMAN: 6/2/15 - 8/29/16 8/29/16: TV LAND: ordered. WE tv today announced that it has greenlit a new unscripted series 'Dr. Nancy Woodforde & the plight of the eighteenth century woman XX, 3, 5 Short disquisition upon history. Parson Woodforde: the Life & Times of a Country Diarist XXIX, 2, 43. Elizabeth Book review: Life of Dr Henry Bathurst. Jul 2: Margaret Sanger speaks in favour of contraception at the Women’s Building on Thurlow Street in Vancouver. Meeting organized by Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom. Canadian women die as a result of bungled illegal abortions. Robert Mc. Callum begins doing abortions in BC and continues until he is arrested, about 1. Canada this year alone. Others estimate as many as 1. Woman jailed for 8 years for performing abortion on woman who died (just one of many examples). Most documented deaths from illegal abortion in one year during this period is 4. Actual numbers probably much higher. Canadian Medical Association starts to lobby the government to change the abortion law. Three different bills presented. Henry Morgentaler presents brief on behalf of the Humanist Fellowship of Montreal. Justice Minister Pierre Trudeau tables bill to ease laws against abortion and divorce, and decriminalize homosexuality and contraception. Jan 9: Dr. Henry Morgentaler defies section 2. Criminal Code and performs abortions in his medical practice in Quebec. Full- time abortion practice by March 1. Mc. Gill students Donna Cherniak and Allan Feingold produce and publish first handbook about contraception, before distributing such information was legal. March: Standing Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs hears testimony from many people and groups on criminal abortion law amendment. Dr. Les Smoling operates illegal clinic in Toronto called the Toronto Free- Standing Abortion Clinic. He was charged three times, eventually left country and didn’t return till 1. A federal committee considers amendments to the Criminal Code on abortion. The committee hears from many groups and individuals on both sides of the issue, including Dr. Henry Morgentaler, who urges repeal of the abortion law and freedom of choice on abortion. Aug 2. 8: Parliament enacts Omnibus Bill law by vote of 1. Section 2. 51 of Criminal Code amended, decriminalizing abortion under certain limited circumstances. Some hospitals with Therapeutic Abortion Committees can approve and provide an abortion, if the pregnancy would endanger the woman’s life or health. Access to abortion is applied unevenly and unfairly across the country and women wait an average of 8 weeks for an abortion. The omnibus bill also legalizes contraception. Labor Challenge front page. April . Women travel over 3,0. Vancouver to Ottawa, gathering numbers as they go. In Ottawa, the Abortion Caravan, now 5. Thirty women chain themselves to the parliamentary gallery in the House of Commons, closing Parliament for the first time in Canadian history. June: Morgentaler’s office is raided by the police and he is charged with conspiracy to perform an abortion. December: The 1. 96. Royal Commission on Status of Women releases its final report recommending that the Criminal Code be amended to permit abortion on request in the first 1. Montreal jury of 1. Morgentaler. Quebec Court of Appeal overturns jury verdict and finds Morgentaler guilty in 1. He appeals his case to the Supreme Court of Canada. Morgentaler issues a public statement in March saying he is performing abortions. On May 1. 3, he performs an abortion on TV (W5). Film is seized by authorities for use by prosecution. The Canadian Association for the Repeal of the Abortion Law is founded, the first national group promoting abortion rights in Canada. While serving his sentence, he is tried on a second charge. A jury acquits him again, and the Quebec Court of Appeal upholds that acquittal. The Federal Minister of Justice sets aside Morgentaler’s conviction on the first charge and orders a new trial. Morgentaler, who had suffered a heart attack in jail, is freed after serving ten months of his sentence. In September, he is acquitted at the retrial of the original charges, the third time a jury acquits him. In late 1. 97. 6, the Quebec government drops all further charges against Morgentaler. Nov: Morgentaler begins to train doctors to provide abortions, training about 3. Feb: The Badgley Committee report is released, finding that women face average delays of 8 weeks for an abortion, law discriminates against poor and rural women, and . Morgentaler opens illegal clinics in Toronto and Winnipeg. Morgentaler is charged with conspiracy to procure a miscarriage, along with other doctors. At the 1. 98. 4 trial, everyone is acquitted. Oct: The Ontario Court of Appeal sets aside the 1. Morgentaler appeals to the Supreme Court of Canada. Canadian Abortion Rights Action League organizes tribunals across country, putting abortion law on trial. May 2. 5: Dr. Robert Scott and Maria Corsillo open the Scott Clinic in Toronto. Scott was arrested in September, but the charges were later stayed by the Attorney General. The BC Coalition for Abortion Clinics is founded to establish clinics in BC. The law is found to violate section 7 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms because it infringes upon a woman’s right to life, liberty, and security of the person. Feb: Various provinces announce different public policies on abortion in an effort to restrict the service or flout the Supreme Court decision, including BC, Saskatchewan, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick. Aug 2. 2: The Canadian Medical Association approves a policy recognizing the right to abortion on request up to the 2. Johns NF (1. 99. 0), Morgentaler Clinic in Edmonton (1. Elizabeth Bagshaw Women. Chantal Daigle of Quebec is refused an abortion under an injunction and appeals to the Supreme Court. During the August hearing, the court learns that Ms. Daigle has already had an abortion in the U. S., but overturns the injunction against her anyway. In November, the court releases its reasons, unanimously ruling there is no fetal or paternal right to stop an abortion, and that a fetus is not a human being and has no right to life. Oct 2. 6: Dr. Morgentaler opens a clinic in Nova Scotia after the provincial government passes legislation prohibiting abortions at clinics. The next day, he is charged under the provincial Medical Services Act. In 1. 99. 0, a provincial court strikes down the Act as unconstitutional and acquits Morgentaler. Nov 3: The federal government introduces Bill C- 4. Criminal Code that would prohibit abortion unless a doctor finds the pregnancy is a threat to the woman’s physical, mental, or psychological health. May: The House of Commons passes Bill C- 4. Senate for approval. June 1. 2: Yvonne Jurewicz of Toronto dies of a self- induced coat- hanger abortion, apparently believing that abortion is already illegal. Jan 3. 1: Bill C- 4. Senate in a tie vote. Abortion is now treated like any other medical procedure. Ellen Wiebe starts performing methotrexate abortions in her office in Vancouver, as part of a clinical study. Methotrexate abortions continue to be available in Canada today. Jun: New Brunswick invokes Medical Services Payment Regulation prohibiting doctors from performing abortions outside approved medical facility. NB College of Physicians and Surgeons restricts Dr. In September, NB Court of Queen. In October, federal government starts deducting fees charged to patients for private medical services (such as abortion) from transfer money to provinces. Nova Scotia is hit the hardest. Sep: In response to the shooting of Dr. Garson Romalis in Vancouver, British Columbia introduces the Access to Abortion Services Act, the first legislation in Canada to prohibit protests outside abortion clinics, and doctors’ offices and homes. May 2. 8: Brenda Drummond of Ottawa shoots herself in the vagina and injures her near- term fetus. The baby recovers after birth and Drummond gets a suspended sentence for failing to provide the . Dobson that children cannot sue their mother for injuries suffered in the womb while pregnant. Jan 8: Allan Rock, Minister of Health, warns New Brunswick, Manitoba, Quebec, and PEI that they have to pay in full for abortions at private clinics, because they are violating Canada Health Act. Oct: Dr. Morgentaler announces he will sue New Brunswick and Nova Scotia governments for not funding abortions at his clinics. Apr: CARAL releases report Protecting Abortion Rights in Canada, a study of access barriers to hospital abortion services. Only 1. 7. 8% of Canadian hospitals provide abortions, and many of these obstruct access through various limitations, ill- informed staff, and anti- choice staff. Mar: Assisted Human Reproduction Bill is passed by Senate. The bill bans human cloning, sets guidelines on stem cell research, and restricts research on human embryos, and bans identifying the sex of an embryo except for medical reasons such as sex- linked disorders. Oct 8: Federal Health Minister Ujjal Dosanjh launches new talks with the provinces to enforce the Canada Health Act, including NB’s refusal to pay for abortions at the Morgentaler clinic in Fredericton, a contravention of the Act. Decision strikes down sections of MB’s Health Insurances Act on the grounds they violate the Charter. Jun 9 . Henry Morgentaler is awarded an honourary doctor of laws degree at University of Western Ontario in London, and gives a speech to two standing ovations. Oct 1. 9: New national political pro- choice group Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada / Coalition pour le Droit . The bill would have endangered abortion rights by creating fetal personhood. After a national pro- choice campaign against it, the Conservative government withdrew its support for the bill, which died when a federal election was called in October. Bill C- 4. 84 was the first anti- abortion private member bill to ever make it past Second Reading.
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