Complaint to police on booklet
A Christchurch woman has laid a complaint with the police about the booklet, “Who Killed Junior?” The Minister of Justice (Mr McLay) ruled at the end of Julv ’that the booklet could not be submitted to the Indecent Publications Tribunal because it was not defined as a book. The booklet, detailing abortion methods and their effects, was distributed to some secondary girls’ schools by the Society for the Proection of the Unborn Child. In her complaint to the police, Mrs M. B. Corey said that the booklet breached the Indecent Publications Act, 1963, as it gave undue emphasis to sex, violence, and horror. “The dominant intent of the document is to induce horror and revulsion so that those who read it will suspend rational judgment and react with fear to the serious matter of abortion,” Mrs Corey said, in her complaint. The booklet was also “medically inaccurate,” she said.
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Press, 11 August 1980, Page 24
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