If you were poor or you were ashamed to go to your local doctor or not even aware of the 15 doctors available to you, you had no choice but to try and self-abort or go to an unqualified backyard abortionist.

The third method was an ho- an illegal abortion network.

Uh, so almost every suburb in Melbourne and in country towns had often a woman, um, who had had some training.

She might have been a nurse or she might have had some medical training in another country, wasn't recognized here.

Um, uh, some women learnt to do it on themselves and then began doing it for their neighbors.

Now, these were, uh, enormously varying quality, and one of them, Charlie White, was a former police officer and a former butcher.

He was taught by a doctor who worked, uh, opposite the Supreme Court, um, doing illegal abortions, and he used to operate on the kitchen tables in Footscray.

In 1970, Bertram Weiner began to bravely put himself forward to be arrested not once, but three times.