ReProductive Conversations

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Welcome to ReProductive Conversations, a monthly podcast brought to you by the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) and Digital Drama Productions. A series of discussions centred around reproductive choice, from the contraception needed to avoid conception, to how to feed a newborn baby, and, of course, the continued fight for abortion rights. Reproductive choice is not just about starting or ending a pregnancy – it’s also about protecting reproductive autonomy across our lifetimes. We live in a culture where women of childbearing age are increasingly treated as “pre-pregnant” – warned against alcohol use, denied medication – on the basis of protecting a hypothetical fetus. Pregnant women find themselves increasingly monitored and their choices restricted. Information is not always presented in a way that enables women to make their own choices based on the available evidence because they are not always trusted to make the “right” decision. Join hosts Clare Murphy and Katherine O’Brien and their guests to explore the true meaning of reproductive choice, and barriers we face in the UK and globally today.  Who are BPAS?  The British Pregnancy Advisory Service, BPAS, is a not-for-profit charity that provides reproductive healthcare to over 100,000 women a year in the UK, and we are also the leading advocate for reproductive rights in the UK. We believe all women should have the right to make their own decisions in and around pregnancy, from the contraception they use to avoid pregnancy right the way through to how they decide to feed their newborn baby, with access to evidence-based information to underpin their choices and high quality services and support to exercise them. www.bpas-campaigns.org Twitter: @BPAS1968 Facebook: @bpas1968 Instagram: @bpas_1968. You can also support our work with a one-off donation here: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=6W852L8QNGS2S ReProductive Conversations is produced by Digital Drama Productions Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episodes

  1. 09/15/2022

    On the Shoulders of Giants

    At a time when reproductive rights in many parts of the world are moving backwards, in this episode we will be looking at the progress that has been made in the past, reflecting on what has changed and what, unfortunately, has stayed the same. Speaking to BPAS's personal heroes - Diane Munday, who successfully campaigned for the 1967 Abortion Act in England and Wales and Margaret Crane, the inventor of the first at home pregnancy test - we will be revisiting their historic wins and discussing how the reproductive political landscape then compares to that of today.  ReProductive Conversations is produced for BPAS by Digital Drama Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    40 min

  2. 08/18/2022

    Who Should be a Mother?

    With the cost-of-living crisis and the threat of climate change, we need local and global solutions. Across political and developmental discourse one solution keeps resurfacing – that women should have fewer children. As politicians and global developmental organisations isolate reproduction as a problem, policy solutions based on changing family sizes and formations become seen as the solution. In this episode we talk to Dr. Ruth Patrick from the Larger Families study to explore how larger families are framed as causing childhood poverty, resulting in welfare policies such as the benefit cap and the two child limit. We also speak with Dr. Rishita Nandagiri about how contraception is being promoted as a tool to address global warming. These seemingly unrelated crises of child poverty and global warming are linked by an underlying belief that encouraging women to make the “right” reproductive choices is crucial for the future of society and indeed the world. What are the wider implications for women’s health and wellbeing, and what are the tensions between these policies and women’s right to reproductive autonomy? Dr. Ruth Patrick: @ruthpatrick0 Larger Families Study: Benefit changes and larger families University of York: Dr Ruth Patrick - School for Business and Society, University of York Dr. Rishita Nandagiri: @rishie_ Abortion Book Club: abortion & other stories; (otherabortionstories.space) Dr. Rishita Nandagiri Website: Dr Rishita Nandagiri (rnandagiri.com) ReProductive Conversations is produced for BPAS by Digital Drama Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    36 min

  3. 07/19/2022

    Fetus First Health Care

    In the wake of the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v Wade, much of the discussion has understandably focussed on women’s ability to access abortion care. However, there are real concerns about the impact the ruling could have on women’s healthcare more broadly, including access to medications during pregnancy. In the UK the healthcare needs of pregnant women – and indeed all women of reproductive age – are increasingly being viewed as less important, or even in competition to, those of their babies. Join us as we explore this “fetus first” approach to medicine, and the implications for women’s autonomy across their lifetimes, with Dr. Caitlin Dean, Pregnancy Sickness Support, and Rachel Arkell, Centre for Reproductive Research and Communication.    To find out more about the discussions in this episode and our guests:    Dr. Caitlin Dean Blog: Spewing Mummy  Pregnancy Sickness Support: The Team (pregnancysicknesssupport.org.uk)  Rachel Arkell PhD Profile: Rache Arkell - Graduate and Researcher College - University of Kent  Rachel Arkell Article: Mandatory Recording Of Pregnant Women’s Drinking Is Just One More Attempt To Police Our Bodies | HuffPost UK Life (huffingtonpost.co.uk)  Reproductive Conversations Podcast is produced by Digital Drama Productions for BPAS: Digital Drama   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    37 min
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Welcome to ReProductive Conversations, a monthly podcast brought to you by the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) and Digital Drama Productions. A series of discussions centred around reproductive choice, from the contraception needed to avoid conception, to how to feed a newborn baby, and, of course, the continued fight for abortion rights. Reproductive choice is not just about starting or ending a pregnancy – it’s also about protecting reproductive autonomy across our lifetimes. We live in a culture where women of childbearing age are increasingly treated as “pre-pregnant” – warned against alcohol use, denied medication – on the basis of protecting a hypothetical fetus. Pregnant women find themselves increasingly monitored and their choices restricted. Information is not always presented in a way that enables women to make their own choices based on the available evidence because they are not always trusted to make the “right” decision. Join hosts Clare Murphy and Katherine O’Brien and their guests to explore the true meaning of reproductive choice, and barriers we face in the UK and globally today.  Who are BPAS?  The British Pregnancy Advisory Service, BPAS, is a not-for-profit charity that provides reproductive healthcare to over 100,000 women a year in the UK, and we are also the leading advocate for reproductive rights in the UK. We believe all women should have the right to make their own decisions in and around pregnancy, from the contraception they use to avoid pregnancy right the way through to how they decide to feed their newborn baby, with access to evidence-based information to underpin their choices and high quality services and support to exercise them. www.bpas-campaigns.org Twitter: @BPAS1968 Facebook: @bpas1968 Instagram: @bpas_1968. You can also support our work with a one-off donation here: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=6W852L8QNGS2S ReProductive Conversations is produced by Digital Drama Productions Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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