Abortion on trial, with Justyna Wydrzyñska and Chiara Capraro

The Guilty Feminist

The Spontaneity Shop

Comedy, Feminism

4.8 • 12.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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This episode is brought to you as part of Amnesty International’s Write for Rights campaign – get involved: https://tinyurl.com/3usebvje

As almost every country in the world moves to steadily liberalise abortion access and women’s reproductive rights, four male presidents have done the opposite, making radical antidemocratic maneuvers to clamp down on women’s bodily autonomy.

Among them, the USA, where the Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade and deprived a generation of women of a constitutional right that they had grown up with.

And Poland, where the Law and Justice Party has infiltrated the courts and virtually eradicated legal access to abortion. But October’s historic election overturned their majority, as women and young people flocked to the polls in record numbers. Abortion was centre stage in the campaigns and one woman’s case was at the heart of it all.

Justyna Wydrzyñska is appealing a criminal conviction for sending abortion pills to a desperate woman in an abusive relationship. She joins us in an exclusive interview about feminist solidarity, hope in hard times, and the empty promises of political campaigns.

We also hear from Amnesty International UK’s lead for Women’s Human Rights, Chiara Capraro, and US abortion rights activist Renee Bracey Sherman, about worldwide trends and mainstream media misinformation about abortion.

The episode was created by Mathilda Mallinson (@mathildamall) and Helena Wadia (@helenawadia). The music is by Samfire (@soundofsamfire). Subscribe to their Patreon to support more investigations and access behind-the-scenes material: https://www.patreon.com/MediaStormPodcast

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0:00.0	Hello Guilty feminists of Australia and New Zealand, just to let you know that I will be in Australia
0:06.6	in December and on the 10th of December we are doing a show in Melbourne to remember Cal Wilson. It's a special guilty feminist to remember
0:16.2	Cal. I had so many amazing times with Cal, touring so many different places in Australia and
0:22.3	New Zealand and there are so many memorable
0:24.5	episodes.
0:26.0	So with some of her closest friends, we want to do a show for her, a guilty famous remembering
0:31.6	her.
0:32.8	So it's at 5 p.m. at the Wheeler Center on the 10th of December.
0:37.4	I'm hosting it with Cal's best mate, Kirstie Weebec.
0:41.6	And other guests will be close friends Claire Hooper, Geraldine Hickey and
0:46.8	Susie Youssef with music from Ali McGregor and Dallas Frasca.
0:52.4	It's going to be a real celebration of
0:54.7	Cal. I'm not going to lie. I am going to cry. But we're also going to laugh. We're
0:59.3	going to remember Cal's best moments. We're going to share stories. We're going to do stand-up comedy.
1:04.0	We're going to sing together and my only sadness is that Cal's not going to be there.
1:10.6	But it's something I really want to do for Cal. Please come, please bring clothes pegs. And in fact, we're going to have some kind of line or tree there where you can clothes peg a favorite memory of Cal,
1:23.2	something from the guilty feminist that she said or that she did,
1:26.2	or maybe something else that you can remember or enjoy about her.
1:30.1	The proceeds will be going to one of Cal's favorite feminist charities, so tickets will be $50 or $25 concession.
1:39.0	And you don't have to have a concession card, just if you can't afford it pay $25 we understand a cost of living
1:43.7	crisis and just pay $50 if you can because it's an amazing
1:48.8	amazing lineup and the acts I'm being paid it's it's all going to charity.
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