Roe Vs Wade exposes UK abortion law's fragility
The Rundown by PoliticsHome
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🗓️ 30 June 2022
⏱️ 23 minutes
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BPAS' Katherine O'Brien and Baroness Hayter join PoliticsHome's Alain Tolhurst and Adam Payne to discuss the reverberations of the US Supreme Court's overturning of Roe Vs Wade, meaning abortion is now banned or severely restricted in a number of American states. The historic roll-back of women's rights exposes the fragility of UK abortion law, and the long term campaign by MPs to rewrite the law in order to decriminalise the procedure.
The Rundown is presented by Alain Tolhurst and Adam Payne. The editor is Laura Silver.
Produced and edited by Nick Hilton for Podot.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to The Rundown, a new podcast from Politics Home. |
| 0:09.8 | I'm your host, Alan Tolhurst, and each week I'll be taking an in-depth look at the biggest political stories with fellow politics home reporters and special guests from across Westminster. |
| 0:18.5 | Joining me this week is our political editor Adam Payne, the Labour peer, Baroness Dian Hater, |
| 0:22.6 | and Catherine O'Brien from the British Pregnancy Advisory Service. |
| 0:27.3 | So this week, Adam, obviously, Boris Johnson's been a way on a sort of world tour. |
| 0:32.1 | Obviously, some people think it's quite good that he was out of the country, |
| 0:34.4 | post those two by-elections. |
| 0:36.5 | He's been in Rwanda for the Commonwealth |
| 0:37.6 | Heads of Government Summit and then also the G7 and NATO summit in Madrid. Two pretty seismic |
| 0:44.7 | defeats, but it doesn't seem as though things have massively changed in Westminster. We seem to |
| 0:48.5 | be in a bit of a sort of a holding pattern and that sort of there's still a lot of anger amongst Tory MPs, |
| 0:53.1 | but actually it hasn't sort of led to any further kind of moves to unseat him despite obviously that the first sort of cabinet |
| 0:58.6 | resignation we saw by all other Dowden. I think holding patterns are very accurate way of describing it. |
| 1:04.2 | You're right, those two by-elections defeats were seismic, incredibly worrying if you're a Tory MP in |
| 1:09.7 | the south of England and you're looking at what happened in Tivetan, I think you'll be bricking it incredibly worrying if you're a Tory MP in the south of England and you're looking |
| 1:11.0 | at what happened in Tivetan, I think you'll be bricking it. And if you're a so-called Red Wall MP |
| 1:16.7 | in that part of the country, you'd be looking what happened in Workfield and worrying is that |
| 1:20.8 | a sign of things to come. I think the reason why we haven't had this explosive response is that |
| 1:26.3 | when we had the confidence for those |
| 1:28.1 | few weeks ago, I think the Conservatives probably losing those two by-elections was very |
| 1:33.3 | much factored in to how Tory MPs were thinking about that vote, whether they were going to vote |
| 1:38.7 | against the PM. So you're right, we're in this quite strange place at the moment where |
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