Peter Diggory

Deceased Person

1924 – 2009

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Who was Peter Diggory?

Dr Peter Lionel Carr Diggory was a British gynaecologist and one of the first to support calls for the legalisation of abortion. He was the central medical figure in the Abortion Law Reform Association in the 1960s and medical adviser to David Steel's Private Member's Bill that became the Abortion Act 1967.

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Born
Jan 6, 1924
Died
Nov 22, 2009

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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