Jane Roe's daughter, Lionesses semi-final, Voices of Power and Women's Health Apps

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.2 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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It’s been just over a month since Roe vs Wade was overturned by the Supreme Court in the United States. On this programme we’ve covered the aftermath of this ruling many times, but what about the woman at the centre of it all? Jane Roe, or a name you might be less familiar with, Norma McCorvey, the real person behind the Roe vs Wade court case of 1972. Her eldest daughter, Melissa Mills, joins Emma Barnett to discuss what her Mum would have made of the court case she was so central to, being overturned. Last night the England women’s team won in a decisive 4-0 victory against Sweden in the Euro semi-final at Bramall Lane. Emma speaks to BBC sports commentator Robyn Cowen, former England player, Anita Asante and sports commentator Jacqui Oatley about what this means for the sport. A new oratorio, Voices of Power, that contemplates the nature of female power across the centuries is set to make its world premiere at Hereford Cathedral tomorrow. Composed by Luke Styles and set to libretto by Jessica Walker, it features the thoughts from seven women from across two millennia, including the likes of Boudica, Margaret Thatcher and Eleanor Roosevelt. Luke and Jessica join Emma to discuss. Period and fertility tracking apps have been growing in popularity for years, but new analysis reveals the majority share sensitive personal data, with experts warning it could be used to target women with tailored advertising. We speak to Fatima Ahmed, obstetrician, gynaecologist and ORCHA'S clinical lead for women’s health.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts
0:04.4	Hello, I'm Emma Barnett and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4.
0:10.3	Good morning, welcome to the programme What a Night, what a series of amazing moments.
0:16.7	I also cannot stop watching the clip of Alessia Rousseau's goal, referred to in there with
0:21.6	one of the four goals. It was an audacious back heel. I'm told that's the best way to
0:25.9	describe it or nutmeg. Congratulations then to England's lionesses for their 4-0 victory
0:31.4	over Sweden in the Euros, the biggest ever semi-final victory in the history of the Women's
0:36.0	European Championships and talking of great sporting moments cast your mind back because
0:40.9	today is 10 years to the day since the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games.
0:47.9	Can you believe it? 10 years? What were you doing on that day? And yet, we also know from a new
0:53.6	report out this week that almost half of British women do no regular exercise. After many women
1:00.8	gave up sport during lockdown, one in three women in the UK have said that their physical health
1:06.4	has deteriorated over the past 12 months. 47% said they did no vigorous weekly exercise like
1:13.3	jogging or playing netball in the past 12 months. For men, the figure was lower, still not great
1:18.6	at 34%. That polling, you may have seen it was done by a Nuffield Health Health Nation index.
1:24.3	And those results, they point to a more sedentary lifestyle increasingly becoming the norm.
1:30.8	So what will get you off the sofa? I mean, if last night, I don't know what will, but,
1:36.1	you know, all seriousness, we want women and men. We want, we want to be moving. We don't want
1:40.9	to have sedentary lifestyles. Could the lionesses do it? Of course, the Olympics was talked about
1:45.2	in terms of a legacy for everybody to keep us moving, to get us into sports, perhaps we didn't
1:49.8	think for us. What has got you moving in your life, maybe at a time when you'd stopped?
1:55.5	How did you start again? Was it swimming? Was it a particular running program? Was it, I don't know,
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