Talk:Vera Drake

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"She is an honest woman who feels driven to perform these procedures because she was subjected to sexual abuse as a young girl." -- Is this fact (of her having been sexually abused) actually established in the film? I've just seen it & do not recall this being said this bluntly. I do recall that during the grilling session at the police station Vera is asked whether she herself had had an abortion, & she fails to answer the question. But unless I missed something I don't think it's said anywhere in the film that Vera had an abused childhood. ND 05:41, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

Aha, I see it's been edited out now. Good. ND 02:43, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Citation style

This article has page numbers to someone called 'Watson' and 'Fuller', and includes the note '(2 of 4)'... Yet no-one has bothered to list the title of Watson's or Fuller's books anywhere. Please fix this.Cop 633 23:07, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Higginson Syringe method

I've removed the assertion that this method is "usually fatal" - it is indeed highly risky (especially in inexperienced hands which is why women turned to 'practitioners' such as Vera in the first place) but wildly incorrect statements shouldn't be included in the article just because some may be concerned that the film may influence real-life behaviour! Plutonium27 (talk) 03:46, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

The source says invariably fatal. The author (Jennifer Worth) doesn't quote her source for this assertion. It seems to be anecdotal. I find it hard to believe a 100% fatal method would have been used at all. Robertcornell68 (talk) 15:29, 18 April 2008 (UTC)