Sweport

In Sweport, Dr. Davis and Woodie are faced with hospital administrators who are doing everything in their power to prevent the staff from giving contraceptive advice or arranging abortions. As a doctor and a midwife, the pair comes face-to-face with these destructive policies on a daily basis. In simply trying to do what is right for the patients and the town, they find themselves in the midst of a different kind of revolution.

Sweport

The fight for women's rights continues. Woodie and Brian have been forced to leave the hospital service. She is now a district nurse, visiting patients at home, and he has become a G.P. Together with his senior partner, Dr. Van, and helped by Woodie's mother, Barbara, they have devised a simple method of providing women with access to contraceptive advice and safe abortions in a town where these are proscribed.

Their enterprise energises and infuriates the local powers-that-be who work diligently against it, using ways that threaten to be effective. The pair have to use initiative to circumvent these, but it is not easy.

In addition, Woodie is part of a small group of women who are trying to get radios put into the fishing trawlers that sail from Sweport, to help ensure safety of the crew. This was the thrust of Lilly Bilocca's efforts in Hull. The problem comes to a head for Woodie and her friends when a trawler makes ready to leave Sweport, though it is the depths of winter when it is most dangerous to go fishing.

Dr. Van's past is recounted. A terrible wrong, committed by the Catholic authorities, is exposed. A new way of continuing the fight for women's rights is revealed.

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