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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Beatrice Faust (born Melbourne, 19 February 1939) is an Australian author and women's activist. She was a co-founder of WEL (Women's Electoral Lobby) and President of the Abortion Law Repeal Association of Victoria. Beatrice Faust was born Beatrice Eileen Fennessey in Glen Huntly, a suburb of Melbourne, 19 February 1939. Her mother died shortly after having given birth. This had been predicted by doctors, who knew of a uterine canal anomaly which would lead to such however being of Roman Catholic and Irish descent the use of contraceptives was denied her parents and subsequently her mother became pregnant with Beatrice. She was brought up by her father, three aunts and an extended Irish family, the union of two such, her Great Grandmother Boule having arrived in Australia in 1848, as a side effect of the Potato Famine and their desire to eat, and her father's having followed suit at a later date.