Sarah Ewart, Janice Galloway, hair and family secrets
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2019
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Sarah Ewart has brought a case against the Northern Ireland Department of Health and Justice for breaching her human rights. Six years ago she travelled to England to terminate a pregnancy for a fatal foetal abnormality. She discusses her decision to bring this action. Scottish writer Janice Galloway talks about Jellyfish, her collection of short stories. Januhairy is a month-long campaign urging women to embrace their body-hair - we ask if there's a hierarchy when it comes to women and body hair? And, the third in our series family secrets - Jess wanted to talk to us about the impact of a family secret she discovered when she was just fourteen.
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| 0:21.0 | And me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little less |
| 0:25.0 | searching and a lot more auction listen on BBC Sounds. |
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| 0:35.0 | Hello, Jenny Murray welcoming you to Thursday's edition of the Women's Our |
| 0:40.1 | Podcast. |
| 0:41.1 | Now it's the 31st, so if you haven't been shaving or plucking for |
| 0:45.5 | Janu Hary it finishes today up to you but when did hair on a woman begin to be considered a problem except if it was on her head? |
| 0:57.0 | A new collection of short stories by Janice Galloway, inspired by a quotation. |
| 1:02.0 | Literature is mostly about sex and not much about having children, |
| 1:07.2 | life's, the other way around. And the next in our series of secrets secrets the teenager who discovered something that could tear her family apart. |
| 1:17.0 | Last summer the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission took a case to the Supreme Court in London arguing that the law |
| 1:25.4 | on abortion there breaches women's human rights. The law in Northern Ireland says |
| 1:30.9 | a termination is only allowed if there's a risk of |
| 1:35.0 | permanent and serious damage to a woman's mental or physical health or if the |
| 1:40.3 | pregnancy puts her life at risk. |
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