Emergency Episode: Our chance to decriminalise abortion in England and Wales

The Guilty Feminist

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Comedy, Feminism

4.8 • 12.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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The Guilty Feminist - Emergency Episode

Deborah Frances-White in conversation with Stella Creasy MP

Recorded 13 June 2025. Released 14 June

The Guilty Feminist theme composed by Mark Hodge.

More about this issue

https://action.goodlawproject.org/decriminalise-abortion
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/decriminalise-abortion-and-make-it-a-protected-human-right

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1:47.8	We are at a crucial juncture for reproductive rights for women and other people who can get pregnant in the United Kingdom.
1:55.3	So if you are British, this especially applies to you or if you're living in Britain, but internationally at the moment,
2:02.6	abortion rights everywhere are under threat and different countries are trying to shore them up
2:07.5	in different ways or grasp some of them back. So this may be interesting to you as well.
2:12.9	Stella Creasy, thank you so much for joining us here at The Guilty Feminist.
2:24.5	It's incredible to be, Lily Deb, because you have always been a stalwart champion of women's rights and particularly reproductive rights.
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