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Director, Norma Bailey ; producer, Wolf Koenig ; executive producer, Andy Thomson ; script, Ruth Andrishak ; camera, Susan Trow ; sound, Jacques Drouin ; editing, Janice Brown ; sound editing, Wojtek Klis ; re-recording, Hans Peter Strobl.

Cast, Alex Gelfand, Ali Giron, Lindalee Tracey, Laura Nerenberg, Cedric Smith, Patty Talbot, Jacklin Williams.

Recorded 1985.

One of a series of short, open-ended dramas designed to stimulate discussion of values and ethics in relation to modern medical technology. This film examines the moral questions surrounding the issue of compulsory sterilization. When a child-beater and single mother of three is admitted to hospital in need of abdominal surgery, the surgeon is sorely tempted to perform a tubal ligation without the patient's consent, thus preventing the birth of "new victims.".

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Prizes awarded to each of the eight films in the series - Category: Health and Medicine , 1987

Description based on online resource; title from title screen (National Film Board of Canada, viewed 2023-08-10).