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Woman's Hour

Candice Carty-Williams, Russian Feminist Protestors, Roe v Wade

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.22.9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Candice Carty-Williams described her very successful first novel Queenie as 'the black Bridget Jones'. In the opening chapter of her new novel People Person absent father Cyril climbs into his gold jeep and drives around London collecting the five half-siblings he has sired, introduces them all for the first time and buys them an ice-cream. Candice has called this her ‘daddy issues’ book and in it she celebrates families of all sorts. Her aim, she says, is to make visible the people she knows and the experiences she has had. She joins Emma in the studio. Overnight - according to a leaked draft of a court document - we learnt that the US Supreme Court could be about to overturn the nationwide right to an abortion. The New York Times writer Amanda Taub tells us what this means for women in America. Despite laws preventing protest or even coverage of the war, many women and female-led groups in Russia have found a way to express their opposition to the invasion of Ukraine. One of them is the Feminist Anti-War Resistance, which has over 32,000 followers on the social media app Telegram. We’re joined by one of their founders, Ella Rossman, who also researches Russian feminist activism at UCL. The latest in our series 'Threads' about the feelings and memories associated with the clothes we just can't part with. Listener Vanessa joins Emma to tell her story. A new 3D female anatomy model is being used to better treat women. The new digital tool will provide a better understanding of the female anatomy and help to prevent women getting incorrectly diagnosed. Professor Claire Smith is using it with her students at Brighton and Sussex Medical School. Presenter: Emma Barnett Producer: Emma Pearce

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.

0:05.3

Hello, I'm Emma Barnett and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4.

0:10.4

Good morning and welcome to the programme.

0:12.2

I hope you had a good bank holiday if you did manage to have some form of break.

0:16.6

But let me ask you this question that may be in your mind this morning after seeing and

0:20.4

hearing and reading the news.

0:22.5

Could the legal right to abortion in America be about to be overturned?

0:27.3

An unprecedented leak of a draft US Supreme Court document shows that might be on the

0:33.0

carbs.

0:34.0

The political website Politico published the leaked document in full and that report has

0:38.7

sent shockwaves through the country regardless of which side US citizens find themselves

0:43.3

on on the issue of abortion.

0:45.9

The leaked draft, and I should stress that's what it is at the moment, shows that five

0:49.9

justices, four men and one woman, would vote to strike down Roe v Wade, the landmark decision

0:56.3

that legalised abortion across America in 1973.

1:00.3

We will get into the detail of that shortly and what that leak shows as I say it's published

1:05.3

in full.

1:06.3

But I wanted to give you the opportunity to have your views aired today on this potential

1:11.6

major change in America which of course will have knock on effects around the world and

1:17.2

of course we need to think about individuals who will be affected too.

1:21.4

This potential major change expressly concerns women.

1:26.0

What do you make of what you're hearing from America where of course the issue of abortion

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