On 4 June 2018 Guardian Australia reporter Melissa Davey received a phone message from a woman making a shocking claim.
An obstetrician working for a New South Wales hospital had paid a patient to have an abortion at almost 20 weeks, Davey was told when she called the woman back. He thought he had harmed the patient’s unborn baby during a medical procedure, the woman said, and wrote her a cheque to cover the termination.
