Exercise at home, Safe access to abortion during Covid-19, Lauren Gunderson, Jessica Moor
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2020
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Keeping up fitness when you're isolated at home. Jenni talks to fitness instructor Rosemary Mallace of Over Fifty Fitness and Professor Janet Lord, an expert in muscle health and immunity from the University of Birmingham, about why keeping moving is particularly important as you get older and what you can do to exercise at home.
Earlier this week the Government published advice that women could be prescribed both abortion pills for a medical abortion, which they would be able to take at home, without attending a hospital or clinic. It has since said that this was published in error. With women trying to observe instructions to stay at home – some self-isolating – trying to reduce the spread of Coronavirus the British Pregnancy Advisory Service says that 500 women a day must make unnecessary journeys, with services and clinic closures forcing them to travel greater distances. So, how can those women who need an abortion access one safely and legally? Jenni speaks to Professor Lesley Regan, Past President RCOG and Co-Chair National Women’s Health Task Force and to Stella Creasy, Labour MP for Walthamstow.
Hampstead Theatre in London is currently streaming on Instagram, ‘I and You’ a play they produced in 2018 starring Maisie Williams in her first stage role. It looks at the struggle a teenager finding herself restricted to her home. The playwright, Lauren Gunderson, currently the most produced living playwright in the US, tells us about her play and what it says about the struggles of youth confined across the globe.
Keeper by Jessica Moor is a novel set in a women’s refuge. Katie, an employee there, has died. As the women in the refuge insist Katie didn’t take her own life the police are forced to investigate. Jenni talks to debut novelist Jessica Moor and to Natasha Saunders who has experience of domestic abuse and of life in a refuge. What can fiction do to shed light on domestic abuse?
Presented by Jenni Murray Produced by Jane Thurlow
Interviewed guest: Stella Creasy Interviewed guest: Lesley Regan Interviewed guest: Lauren Gunderson Interviewed guest: Jessica Moor Interviewed guest: Natasha Saunders Interviewed guest: Rosemary Mallace Interviewed guest: Janet Lord
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts |
| 0:04.9 | Hello, Jenny Murray welcoming you to the Woman's R Podcast for Friday the 27th of March. |
| 0:11.9 | Good morning. As we learn, rates of domestic violence are set to rise as so many of us have |
| 0:17.7 | forced to stay at home, a book called Keeper. Why was Jessica Moore inspired to write a novel |
| 0:24.3 | have first about coercive control and women who've sought refuge? A theatre's find ways of |
| 0:31.2 | bringing their great productions to you at home, Laura Gunderson, the most produced living |
| 0:36.0 | playwright in the United States joins us from San Francisco to discuss her play I and You, |
| 0:42.0 | which the Hampstead Theatre is showing on Instagram and doing your exercises in the house during |
| 0:50.0 | lockdown. Why does it matter more when you're older and how to do it safely? And yes, I will be |
| 0:57.0 | expected to prove I can get up and down from a chair without using my hands, wait and see. |
| 1:04.8 | Now there's long been debates about the prescription of pills which are used for medical abortion. |
| 1:10.5 | It's been a requirement that a woman should be given the first of two tablets under supervision |
| 1:15.6 | in a clinic the second could be taken at home. Early this week the government published advice |
| 1:21.5 | that women could be prescribed both pills to take at home without having to travel to the |
| 1:26.4 | clinical hospital. It seemed to make sense at a time when everyone is trying to observe the |
| 1:31.8 | instruction to stay at home. Well soon after that advice was published it was rescinded. The |
| 1:39.0 | government said it had been published in error. Well the British pregnancy advisory service says 500 |
| 1:45.9 | women a day must make the journey and the services and clinics close they may have to travel |
| 1:51.7 | even greater distances than usual. How then can women who need an abortion get one safely |
| 1:58.6 | and legally? Well Stella Creasy is Labour MP for Waltham Stowe Professor Leslie Regan is a |
| 2:04.6 | past president at the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and one of the chairs of |
| 2:09.9 | the National Women's Health Task Force. Leslie why as far as you can tell was the government's |
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