Bourne Abortion Case
- Date:
- 1938-1993
- Reference:
- GC/150
- Archives and manuscripts
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About this work
Description
Copies of papers relating to the precedent-forming case, 1938, in which Dr Aleck Bourne was tried for performing an abortion on a 14 year old girl who had been made pregnant by rape. Bourne's acquittal liberalised England's abortion laws, establishing psychiatric grounds as a permissable medical reason for abortion. The case is central to these studies to the legal attitude to abortion. The collection also includes articles by Bourne's daughter and grandson.
Publication/Creation
1938-1993
Physical description
1 file
Acquisition note
Given to the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre by Mrs Joan Ostry, Bourne's daughter, May 1993
Related material
SA/ALR, SA/FPA
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Identifiers
Accession number
- 472