The Law of Abortion

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Wortion is still a criminal offence in the UK. If you get two doctor to sign off that it will harm your health, then you can have an abortion. But if you were to just go and have an abortion, it would be illegal. And technically you could be sent to jail for life. Iways, think tion is a right in this country isn't appreciated. It takes a while for legal change to translate into social change. One of the things that i found really interesting about the coverage of the weinstein case has been they've pointed out how these are actually difficult women. They're not women who were raped and then went away and never spoke to him again. He hob

In this episode of the Intelligence Squared podcast we are joined by Helen Lewis, staff writer for the Atlantic, who claims that too many pioneers of women’s rights have been whitewashed or forgotten because society likes its heroines to be cuddly and safe. Lewis believes it’s time to reclaim the history of feminism as a history of difficult women, and on Tuesday February 25 she came to the Intelligence Squared stage to set out the arguments of her new book, Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights. She appeared in conversation with the feminist campaigner Caroline Criado Perez and BBC broadcaster Samira Ahmed.

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