TRIGGERnometry - May 12, 2022


The Case for Abortion - Ann Furedi


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Anne Faraday is a former chief executive of the British Pregnancy Advisory Service, which was the largest abortion provider in the UK at the time of her retirement. In this episode, Anne talks to us about her career, her views on abortion, and why she thinks a woman should be able to choose her own baby.

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00:00:00.000 Having run an abortion service for 17 years,
00:00:06.560 there are very, very few women who will come back 1.00
00:00:10.080 and basically say, I really wish I hadn't done that.
00:00:14.260 The number of women who contact us and say,
00:00:18.220 thank you for enabling me to put my life back on track is huge.
00:00:30.000 Hello and welcome to Trigonometry.
00:00:35.620 I'm Francis Foster.
00:00:37.180 I'm Constantine Kisson.
00:00:38.460 And this is a show for you if you want honest conversations
00:00:42.100 with fascinating people.
00:00:44.260 Our brilliant guest today is a former chief executive
00:00:47.260 of the British Pregnancy Advisory Service, Anne Faraday.
00:00:50.880 The problem we have with this episode is we lost the footage we had
00:00:54.800 from the main camera.
00:00:55.860 We've already fired our producer for the hundredth time.
00:00:58.740 Hasn't helped.
00:00:59.340 So in this episode, everything is as normal.
00:01:02.660 The only thing is you won't see us front on,
00:01:04.900 which I'm sure will be a relief.
00:01:08.220 Anne Faraday, welcome to Trigonometry.
00:01:10.280 Thank you very much for having me.
00:01:11.620 It's great to have you on.
00:01:12.940 You know that we interviewed Dr. Callum Miller recently,
00:01:16.020 who has a very different position to you on abortion.
00:01:19.080 I think it's fair to say.
00:01:20.240 I think it's fair to say he does.
00:01:23.700 And we had a long discussion where we were kind of probing
00:01:26.660 some of his arguments.
00:01:28.040 And at the end of it, in fact, at the beginning,
00:01:29.960 I said, this is our first foray into this.
00:01:31.900 We're going to get someone on who has a different view.
00:01:34.240 And at the end of it, he actually said, well,
00:01:35.900 I can recommend you some people who disagree with me vehemently,
00:01:39.480 but who are very good.
00:01:40.920 And you were right at the top of that list.
00:01:43.080 So welcome to the show.
00:01:44.900 Thank you very much indeed.
00:01:46.280 Great to have you on.
00:01:47.040 Tell everybody who are you, how are you, where you are,
00:01:49.340 what has been your journey through life that leads you to be sitting here talking to us?
00:01:52.580 Oh, my God.
00:01:53.780 Right.
00:01:54.160 So this is going to be a very short,
00:01:56.020 very short account of who I am and where I am.
00:02:00.900 So I'm actually a journalist way back in the day
00:02:06.380 who got very interested in women's reproductive health
00:02:14.000 through doing medical writing.
00:02:17.660 Ended up working for the Family Planning Association,
00:02:21.340 running their press office,
00:02:23.960 doing parliamentary advocacy work around abortion
00:02:27.260 right the way back in the early 90s.
00:02:30.460 It's probably about before you guys were born.
00:02:33.880 When actually abortion was... 0.58
00:02:35.800 She's very charitable.
00:02:36.700 Yeah, she is.
00:02:37.240 No, no, no.
00:02:37.840 But, you know, abortion was way more controversial than it is now.
00:02:42.700 And at that time, the campaigning was largely about,
00:02:49.040 a lot of it was about funding in the NHS
00:02:51.080 because about half of women had to pay for their own procedure 1.00
00:02:56.320 because it wasn't really seen as something
00:03:00.000 that women should be able to get on the NHS.
00:03:02.360 And I went from there to running what was the, turned out,
00:03:09.000 well, ended up being the largest abortion provider in Britain
00:03:14.680 with a good advocacy department to make sure the politicians
00:03:20.580 and the public understood why women needed abortions. 1.00
00:03:24.860 And I always used to describe it as the best job in the world,
00:03:29.700 but I always decided that I would finish work when I got to 60.
00:03:35.220 So I'm now focusing on writing.
00:03:38.860 I've gone back and studied philosophy at university.
00:03:42.300 I'm doing a lot of dog walking and some talking to guys like you.
00:03:47.620 Yeah.
00:03:47.700 Well, it's a pleasure to have you on.
00:03:49.700 So let's get straight into it.
00:03:52.640 The, I pushed back on Callum quite a bit,
00:03:55.740 but I also agreed with quite a lot of what he said, I think.
00:03:59.780 His, Callum's main argument from memory was essentially that
00:04:03.280 our job as people is to protect the most vulnerable people in society
00:04:07.460 and unborn children are that.
00:04:09.800 That is a life and taking it is immoral and wrong.
00:04:14.200 What say you to that?
00:04:15.280 Well, funnily enough,
00:04:18.900 there are a lot of areas that Callum and I would agree on.
00:04:23.900 And I do think that abortion is taking a life of sorts.
00:04:31.900 But the one thing that I think is profoundly immoral
00:04:34.680 is forcing a woman to carry a pregnancy 1.00
00:04:41.680 and have a child when she really does not want to do that.
00:04:47.800 And I also think it's profoundly immoral to force a woman to have an abortion
00:04:52.080 if she wants to have a child.
00:04:54.960 And I think that these are the whole thing about how you deal with your pregnancy
00:05:01.540 and what kind of family you have is something that is deeply,
00:05:09.660 it's a deeply intimate moral consideration
00:05:13.520 that should be made by the person who is going to live the life of responsibility for it.
00:05:21.160 And you can have an opinion on it, I can have an opinion on it,
00:05:24.360 Callum can have an opinion on it.
00:05:26.280 But at the end of the day, it is the woman who is pregnant 0.99
00:05:29.860 who is going to look at herself every day in the mirror
00:05:36.340 knowing the decision she made about that pregnancy.
00:05:39.160 And I think that she should be responsible for it.
00:05:44.640 And to do that, she has to be able to choose.
00:05:48.940 Why is abortion special, Anne?
00:05:50.620 Because, you know, based on what you've said,
00:05:53.560 to go with the logic of your own argument,
00:05:56.180 if abortion is killing,
00:05:58.300 in what other area would we allow people to make a decision for themselves
00:06:03.260 that allows them to kill someone else for their own benefit?
00:06:06.480 However important that benefit is.
00:06:08.800 Yeah, and there are no other areas in which we would do that,
00:06:15.600 which is why when people say,
00:06:19.520 oh, women can have abortions just because it's inconvenient to have a child, 1.00
00:06:27.960 are completely wrong.
00:06:28.900 I mean, we wouldn't allow people to bump off their parents, would they?
00:06:33.000 Because it's inconvenient to be caring for your elderly parents.
00:06:38.800 But pregnancy is utterly different.
00:06:41.380 You know, when a woman is pregnant, 1.00
00:06:45.300 the life that we're talking about here is actually growing inside her.
00:06:51.840 It's something that's going on within her actual body.
00:06:55.920 No one else can intervene to affect that life without interfering or intervening in her life.
00:07:06.440 Once she's given birth, that's obviously entirely different.
00:07:11.180 Teams of social workers and nurses and whatever can be, you know, doing stuff for that baby.
00:07:22.200 But up until that moment, it, you know, she is the person who's affected.
00:07:28.820 And I think it, it's curious that we lose track of that.
00:07:35.760 We kind of lose sight of it.
00:07:37.100 So if you think about it, people will say, oh, well, you know, surely it's okay to insist
00:07:49.080 that a woman should go on with the pregnancy, at least until the child's born, 0.98
00:07:54.960 because it's a human life.
00:07:56.760 But, you know, you wouldn't say to, you wouldn't say to me, you have to give your kidney to keep
00:08:09.620 somebody alive, or you have to make a blood donation to keep another person alive.
00:08:17.100 Because that way, you know, forcing people to do things with their own bodies for other people,
00:08:24.540 I think that really is the road to hell.
00:08:27.860 You know, these things are seen as being voluntary.
00:08:30.780 And I think however much it bothers us, I think we have to see abortion as being the choice
00:08:38.380 of the person who's living the life.
00:08:42.000 You know, we talk about, we talk about when does life begin or become morally significant
00:08:50.260 in the womb.
00:08:53.080 But you have to remember that at no point does a woman become morally less significant
00:09:00.900 or morally less of a person because she's pregnant.
00:09:04.560 So why would we take away her rights to deal with her own body in a way that we wouldn't do beforehand?
00:09:12.380 That's, you know, that's the way that I kind of reckon it.
00:09:17.140 And that doesn't mean, you know, it doesn't mean that I have got some great love of abortion
00:09:30.520 as a procedure.
00:09:31.820 Actually, I've got a great, a great presumption in favour of life.
00:09:36.260 I think having a child is wonderful, but I've got a great love of people's individual freedom.
00:09:42.780 And I think that, you know, having a child is something that we have to give people freedom
00:09:53.000 to decide about.
00:09:55.560 I couldn't agree with you more on the liberty about your own body.
00:09:59.380 And just touching back on COVID, that argument became deeply unfashionable when we were talking
00:10:04.980 about mandatory vaccinations.
00:10:06.480 Well, it is something that is deeply unfashionable.
00:10:12.900 In fact, one of, but it's also, it's particularly unfashionable when it comes to this, because
00:10:20.080 it amazes me that, you know, you have organisations like the Alliance for Democracy and Freedom and
00:10:28.140 so on, who are absolutely fantastic on a whole load of freedom and democracy issues.
00:10:36.680 But when it comes to this freedom of a woman to decide about her own body, suddenly all of 0.99
00:10:43.720 that goes a bit out of the window.
00:10:45.020 And I think, or the other thing that happens is that people think that abortion is some kind
00:10:55.920 of an identity issue.
00:10:57.980 It's like a feminist issue that is about how women define who they are. 1.00
00:11:07.840 And I don't think that that's right at all.
00:11:11.440 And I think that, you know, nobody wants to identify as a woman who has had an abortion. 0.71
00:11:22.940 You don't support a woman's right. 1.00
00:11:26.240 You don't, you don't exercise your right to abortion.
00:11:30.320 Let's put it like this.
00:11:30.980 You don't exercise that right, like you exercise your right to vote.
00:11:34.640 You know, oh, I'm a woman.
00:11:36.160 Abortion's legal. 0.93
00:11:37.060 I think I'll have one of those.
00:11:38.300 That's not, you know, that is never the way it works.
00:11:41.760 On an individual level, abortion is the solution to a particular problem.
00:11:47.960 You had sex, you got pregnant, you really do not want to have a baby. 0.97
00:11:53.500 But, you know, it's got such a kind of political ramifications, moral ramifications for other
00:12:02.440 people that the whole thing becomes, you know, a real mess.
00:12:05.580 And my sense is, you know, can we please leave people to make these deeply intimate decisions
00:12:13.320 for themselves and let them take the responsibility for it?
00:12:18.100 Because ultimately it's, it's her body.
00:12:22.720 And we live in a society that generally now recognises that people should do that.
00:12:30.300 But hang on a second.
00:12:32.300 So on the whole, I agree with the argument, but shouldn't there be limits around when
00:12:37.620 a woman should be able to get abortion? 1.00
00:12:39.300 She could be able to get an abortion because, for instance, eight months in, I mean, a baby, 1.00
00:12:43.520 most babies can live outside of the womb eight months in.
00:12:47.760 Should that be allowed?
00:12:48.820 Okay, well, so this is one of the things that used to really do my head in, actually, when
00:12:59.900 I was running BPAS, because we have a 24-week time limit.
00:13:07.960 And I think in lots of ways, we could probably say that it's not unreasonable.
00:13:18.780 You know, 24 weeks is six months.
00:13:23.000 We can accept that by then, frankly, very, very, very few women would be contemplating having
00:13:33.740 an abortion, because by that time you can feel fetal movement.
00:13:39.940 You're generally, you know, visibly pregnant.
00:13:43.740 In this country, it's quite easy to get an abortion in early pregnancy.
00:13:51.140 What is a terrible thing, I believe, is when you have that guillotine of dates.
00:14:06.040 And so, and believe me, this is a seriously practical problem where there will be all kinds
00:14:12.500 of reasons why a woman will present late in pregnancy.
00:14:16.960 And sometimes it's got to do with the fact that a wanted pregnancy has become an unwanted
00:14:24.160 pregnancy.
00:14:26.400 Maybe it's because her circumstances have changed.
00:14:32.760 Maybe her relationship has broken down.
00:14:38.280 You know, there are a whole load of things that can go on.
00:14:40.780 Pregnancy always happens within the context of a woman's life. 1.00
00:14:43.940 But it seems to me utterly insane that an abortion that is perfectly legal on the Thursday, when
00:14:54.960 she is 23 weeks and six days pregnant, is utterly illegal on the Friday. 1.00
00:15:03.900 So, say the doctor's sick.
00:15:09.200 Say something happens, like there's a train strike and she can't get to the clinic.
00:15:15.820 If you've got that absolute guillotine of a time limit, it's not like, you know, it's not like a
00:15:23.580 speeding limit where, oh, you can go a little bit beyond it.
00:15:28.540 It's literally the case that one minute past midnight, a pregnancy that was legal now isn't. 1.00
00:15:36.540 And that to me is mind-numbingly stupid. 0.99
00:15:40.980 And it's very harsh for women who are on that cusp. 1.00
00:15:47.360 And then when it comes to the very late abortions, there's ones that I think make everybody draw in a
00:15:55.620 deep breath, you know, it's when you hear of women, and this can really only happen for 1.00
00:16:02.240 severe fetal anomaly, and you hear of these very, very late cases.
00:16:07.440 And typically, that will have been a managed situation between a woman and her doctor. 0.97
00:16:19.440 And very often, there's very late ones, when the baby would be born with some absolutely
00:16:27.860 crippling anomaly that means that it couldn't be kept alive after birth. 0.89
00:16:34.600 And the woman has said to her medical team that she really wants to carry the pregnancy as long as
00:16:42.000 possible, out of love for that unborn child.
00:16:46.600 So it's not someone deciding, you know what, I actually don't feel like.
00:16:49.640 Yeah, yeah, sure.
00:16:50.760 But can we explore a few more arguments that I found persuasive with Callum?
00:16:57.920 So it's interesting that we agree that it's killing.
00:17:00.640 And so we can maybe come back to that part of the conversation.
00:17:03.780 But the other thing that he explained was that quite often, and look, my wife is currently
00:17:08.840 eight months pregnant.
00:17:10.040 Yes.
00:17:10.300 Right?
00:17:10.920 Okay.
00:17:11.300 So you know exactly what it's like then to be eight months pregnant.
00:17:15.940 And one of the things...
00:17:17.540 I mean, not exactly.
00:17:18.520 Well, no, not exactly.
00:17:20.020 I know exactly what she's going through.
00:17:22.040 Even if you tell me you're a pregnant woman, I'm not going to believe you on that one. 1.00
00:17:25.980 Right, right, exactly. 0.94
00:17:27.300 Well, you're very transphobic.
00:17:29.040 But look, so one of the things that I've observed is that, and my wife would tell you
00:17:35.580 this herself, is that she's gone through various stages, not only physically, but also emotionally
00:17:40.940 and mentally and psychologically.
00:17:42.600 And sometimes she's very, very calm.
00:17:45.260 And other times she's a bit more emotional and a bit all over the place.
00:17:49.320 And this is the process that you go through.
00:17:50.800 And one of the points that Callum made when we interviewed him was that if you look at
00:17:55.600 the statistics of how women feel if they've had an abortion versus carrying the baby, even
00:18:01.020 if they were forced to carry the baby through, is that the statistics show, Callum says, that
00:18:07.520 actually the outcomes are more positive for women who carry the baby through than the women
00:18:12.720 who have an abortion.
00:18:14.640 Right?
00:18:15.100 Yeah.
00:18:15.280 So in my point being that we don't always necessarily know what the right decision is
00:18:20.320 in advance, but the evidence does seem to show that women seem to benefit.
00:18:25.140 They're more likely to benefit.
00:18:27.140 I mean, these are terrible words.
00:18:28.640 I'm getting myself into awful trouble here.
00:18:30.760 Because it's a really difficult argument.
00:18:33.380 The outcomes are better, statistically speaking, for women who carry the pregnancy through, even
00:18:37.900 if they didn't want to, versus the women who have an abortion. 1.00
00:18:40.840 That's what he argues.
00:18:41.780 Yeah, but where do you go?
00:18:42.880 I mean, that is a kind of, I think, personally, a slightly wacky way of looking at it.
00:18:52.940 Because once you get into these studies of better outcomes, you end up going all over
00:19:00.440 the place.
00:19:00.780 So, you know, I can tell you that the outcomes of pregnancies that are conceived to women
00:19:09.600 in their early 20s are better than the outcomes of pregnancies that are conceived by women 0.89
00:19:18.960 at later ages and so on.
00:19:22.900 We wouldn't go around saying, oh, it's a really good idea for everybody to be getting pregnant 0.55
00:19:27.920 when they're in their early 20s.
00:19:29.800 And we shouldn't be letting them get pregnant in later years because the outcomes are better. 1.00
00:19:38.000 That really is the road to a very eugenic society where you're basically organising people's behaviour
00:19:45.260 on the thing of outcomes.
00:19:48.140 And the problem is, is that these studies, it's very difficult to get comparable groups.
00:19:56.300 And I think that it ultimately comes down to allowing people to make the decision that they think is the
00:20:12.320 right decision for them at the time, even though sometimes we might look back and we might think
00:20:22.080 that we would have made a different decision with hindsight.
00:20:25.760 I mean, we do that with all kinds of things that we do in our lives.
00:20:29.380 We do that with the people we marry or have children with and so on.
00:20:34.380 Seemed like a good idea at the time.
00:20:36.060 I'm not very sure it's the right thing to do.
00:20:39.140 Looking back on what we would have done.
00:20:41.960 Looking back on it.
00:20:43.820 Frank's my husband, by the way.
00:20:46.660 You know, it's like looking back on things.
00:20:49.060 We're not immune to it.
00:20:50.740 Now, what I can say as a former abortion provider is that, you know,
00:20:59.720 and I know that people who are very against abortion tend to demonise us
00:21:06.840 and don't entirely believe us when we say this.
00:21:10.240 But the last thing that you want is to end a pregnancy and for someone to regret it.
00:21:20.380 You know, you really do not want that to happen.
00:21:23.320 So there's a massive amount of work that goes on to ensure that women, 1.00
00:21:31.360 particularly with these later procedures,
00:21:34.100 are really in a space where they have considered all of the various options
00:21:39.780 and they're not making a snap decision on it.
00:21:42.120 Because you do not want to be the doctor
00:21:44.300 who is being hauled up in front of the GMC
00:21:49.320 and accused of not properly ensuring that women have consented
00:21:54.940 and been counselled and so on.
00:21:56.800 And more to the point, you're a decent human being
00:22:00.540 and you don't want someone to be in a situation like that.
00:22:04.940 So I think that, you know, what I would say to Callum
00:22:09.680 is you can't live people's lives for them.
00:22:13.060 You have to treat women like the adults they are. 1.00
00:22:19.180 You have to make sure that they have weighed up all of the options
00:22:24.180 and that they're not making a snap decision.
00:22:29.260 And then you have to make, you have to let them decide.
00:22:32.620 It's a good point.
00:22:33.860 And when I said I'm persuaded by his argument,
00:22:36.760 I was not suggesting that that necessarily means
00:22:39.100 we should outlaw all abortions based on the fact that the outcomes are better.
00:22:42.340 But is that something that a woman might be told that,
00:22:47.720 you know, look, you're considering an abortion.
00:22:49.720 Here is the evidence about how women feel
00:22:52.780 as a result of having an abortion versus carrying the child through.
00:22:57.280 I don't think that you would.
00:22:58.420 Well, I don't know.
00:23:00.580 Because that wouldn't that be relevant to tell them?
00:23:02.520 Well, I tell you, so I think, right,
00:23:07.900 and I know that this is the way that things go on in,
00:23:14.960 certainly in BPAS clinics,
00:23:17.800 is that the conversation that you will have with somebody,
00:23:22.800 that the counsellors will have with someone,
00:23:24.740 is very nuanced.
00:23:26.880 And when, for example, as you quite often do,
00:23:30.300 you get a younger woman in who's basically saying, 1.00
00:23:35.180 actually, I really want to have this baby,
00:23:37.380 but my mum will kill me. 0.98
00:23:39.840 You're saying, actually, she probably won't, you know.
00:23:43.660 And let's think about how you might have that discussion with her.
00:23:46.120 Or the person who's saying, you know,
00:23:50.860 I really want to have this baby,
00:23:53.080 I can't cope with this morning sickness anymore.
00:23:56.580 I can't cope with da-da-da-da-da. 0.97
00:23:58.780 You're talking to them about how they can cope with it.
00:24:02.580 And I think that where there's sometimes an imbalance
00:24:08.920 in the sort of issues is that if you take, like, the other side,
00:24:17.460 it's not really a two-sided argument.
00:24:21.960 There are some doctors who are absolutely against abortion.
00:24:28.200 And then there are those of us who are providing services
00:24:32.660 who, it's not like you're for abortion.
00:24:36.880 It's the, you want women to make the right choice. 1.00
00:24:39.700 And where I really respect Callum
00:24:41.840 is that I think that Callum does really believe
00:24:47.380 that abortion is a bad thing for women. 1.00
00:24:51.980 What I would say is that having run an abortion service 1.00
00:24:57.680 for 17 years, there are very, very few women 1.00
00:25:03.060 who will come back and basically say,
00:25:06.500 I really wish I hadn't done that.
00:25:09.120 The number of women who contact us and say,
00:25:12.700 thank you for enabling me to put my life back on track is huge.
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00:26:33.060 If you think about the way that the statistics work,
00:26:36.740 I hate talking statistics because I'm rubbish at remembering numbers
00:26:41.220 and so on, to be honest.
00:26:42.240 Do not ask me tough statistical questions.
00:26:46.200 But if you think that something like one in three women in Britain 1.00
00:26:50.900 will have terminated a pregnancy at some time during their life.
00:26:56.260 One in three?
00:26:57.020 Yeah.
00:26:57.380 Wow.
00:26:57.640 Yeah.
00:26:59.280 I know.
00:27:00.120 I mean, it's true.
00:27:02.180 One in three women will have terminated a pregnancy
00:27:05.220 at some time during their life.
00:27:08.520 The reason why that happens, by the way,
00:27:10.260 is because contraception, 0.99
00:27:13.080 which looks very effective on paper and in studies,
00:27:19.140 generally isn't as effective as you think it will be in real life.
00:27:24.800 So a lot of women who are on the pill 1.00
00:27:29.900 or couples using condoms end up with unexpected pregnancies
00:27:36.680 and abortion is often seen as a, you know,
00:27:42.220 it's like you can call it shutting the gate after the horse is bolted,
00:27:46.820 but fortunately with pregnancy,
00:27:49.380 we're not talking about bolting horses
00:27:51.560 and you can put right something that you think is wrong.
00:27:56.340 But, you know, there are not a,
00:28:03.080 it is not the case that there are hundreds of thousands of women 1.00
00:28:08.480 who are mentally damaged as a result of making that decision.
00:28:12.480 I think some women may regret it as we regret a whole load of things, 0.92
00:28:18.520 but mainly it's something that people can put aside
00:28:23.120 and then go on and have children at a time that they want to.
00:28:28.940 You know, half of the women who come to be passed are already mothers. 0.88
00:28:33.020 You know, they've already had children.
00:28:34.580 Many of the other women that we see will go on and have children. 1.00
00:28:40.680 It's just at that time, it's a problem.
00:28:44.860 Do you think that we trivialise the issue of abortion?
00:28:48.300 I think it's banded around.
00:28:52.920 Um, I think that, um, we fail to appreciate
00:29:03.700 how women, when they face that positive pregnancy test,
00:29:13.660 have to weigh up some, you know,
00:29:18.680 like a whole load of stuff that is going on in their life.
00:29:25.140 It's like at that point,
00:29:27.200 it really is like you're a fork in the road.
00:29:32.860 And if you decide to terminate the pregnancy,
00:29:37.500 then things go on one track.
00:29:41.160 If you decide to have the baby,
00:29:45.420 your life goes on another track.
00:29:47.280 And often for women, it's very nuanced.
00:29:53.200 And I'd be the first person to admit
00:29:55.960 that before I became involved in providing abortion services,
00:30:03.240 I thought it was a much more binary,
00:30:06.060 much more simple decision.
00:30:08.000 I thought it was much more women kind of know, you know, 0.97
00:30:12.120 if they're going to have an abortion 1.00
00:30:13.880 or if they want to have a baby,
00:30:16.360 it's pretty clear one way or the other.
00:30:19.320 And I think now I'd say that's not so much.
00:30:23.380 I think that for most women, 1.00
00:30:26.180 there's some gray in there.
00:30:29.600 And what a lot of women will say is, 1.00
00:30:34.100 if circumstances were different,
00:30:36.040 I have the baby now,
00:30:39.660 sometimes that means that people will say,
00:30:45.720 well, what we should do is work on what,
00:30:48.440 you know, making better resources for women 1.00
00:30:51.320 to be able to continue those pregnancies.
00:30:54.320 And I'm a massive believer in that.
00:30:56.580 But often, the things that women want to change 1.00
00:31:01.720 are things that you can't change.
00:31:04.660 It's like, I would have the baby if I wasn't 16.
00:31:09.860 I would have the baby if my partner wanted to have the baby. 0.82
00:31:15.140 But how do you change those things?
00:31:21.380 You really can't.
00:31:23.000 And so, again, it comes back to weighing it all up,
00:31:29.540 all things considered,
00:31:31.580 who is going to be in the best position
00:31:34.740 to make that decision?
00:31:38.400 And it, you know, it has got to be her.
00:31:43.100 But is it, is it her though?
00:31:45.380 See, this is like,
00:31:46.720 I'm going to sound really illiberal here.
00:31:48.460 No, go on.
00:31:48.940 But from, I was born when my mother had been 18 for four days.
00:31:54.040 Yeah.
00:31:55.340 And I wouldn't say I've worked out perfectly,
00:31:57.660 but I've worked out all right.
00:31:58.980 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:31:59.920 Do you see what I'm saying?
00:32:01.140 Now, fortunately, my mother,
00:32:04.600 my parents made the decision that they made,
00:32:06.580 at least fortunately for me,
00:32:07.460 maybe not for the world,
00:32:08.420 but for me at least, right?
00:32:09.940 Yeah.
00:32:10.900 But is an 18-year-old really the best person 0.99
00:32:15.060 to make that decision?
00:32:16.400 Like, from a right point of view,
00:32:18.820 I agree with you completely.
00:32:19.900 Every human being has a right
00:32:21.060 to make the decision for themselves
00:32:22.240 and make their own mistakes
00:32:23.340 and pay the price of that.
00:32:25.000 Everybody does.
00:32:25.980 But when you're talking about something
00:32:27.700 that involves killing another being,
00:32:30.260 and we've talked about why that's different.
00:32:32.580 I hear you at least.
00:32:33.820 I'm not sure I agree, but I hear you.
00:32:35.180 Yeah.
00:32:36.300 Is a 17-year-old or a 16-year-old
00:32:39.880 or an 18-year-old really the best person
00:32:43.220 to make that decision?
00:32:44.280 Really?
00:32:45.320 I genuinely really think they are.
00:32:49.880 You know, I know, you know,
00:32:54.900 I've got a good friend who is a very young mum
00:33:02.180 and the dad is very young as well.
00:33:05.740 They're both under 18.
00:33:08.180 Right, but we don't let them vote.
00:33:09.560 We don't let them drink.
00:33:10.560 And yet they can kill another being?
00:33:12.780 Is that what you're telling me?
00:33:14.000 Or put it another way, right?
00:33:15.780 She was able to decide what she felt was going to be the best thing,
00:33:27.720 both for her and for a child that she would give birth to.
00:33:34.640 And she decided with, you know,
00:33:38.660 her boyfriend and with very supportive parents
00:33:42.680 that that was the best thing.
00:33:45.060 Now, as it happens,
00:33:46.360 I think that we've seen a massive hostility
00:33:52.880 to young mothers
00:33:56.400 and to teenage pregnancy
00:34:00.020 over the last 20 years
00:34:03.260 that I've been working in the field.
00:34:07.320 You know, I think, you know, there has been,
00:34:09.740 well, I mean, it was really under the Blair government
00:34:12.140 where they started this big thing
00:34:15.940 about reducing the rate of teenage pregnancy
00:34:19.880 and it was a little bit like
00:34:21.320 it was really bad to get pregnant as a teenager,
00:34:26.220 but having a baby as a teenager
00:34:28.780 was even worse than having an abortion.
00:34:31.900 And I'm not sure that that's true
00:34:33.600 for a lot of young girls.
00:34:36.680 There are some of these young girls
00:34:38.840 who are perfectly capable,
00:34:41.760 as indeed there are lots of 30-year-old women 1.00
00:34:45.380 who are disastrous to mothers. 0.99
00:34:47.980 It's not, you know,
00:34:48.700 it's not a very age-related thing.
00:34:51.620 I think it does really decide,
00:34:53.760 you know, it does really depend a lot
00:34:55.320 on what you want to be doing
00:34:57.100 with your life at one time.
00:35:00.000 But, you know,
00:35:01.420 look, let me tell you about one,
00:35:04.340 right, and I'm so not making this up.
00:35:06.960 When I was at BPAS,
00:35:12.040 one of the things that was great about the job
00:35:15.080 was that you'd go and you'd see one of the clinics
00:35:17.900 and I used to hang out in the waiting room
00:35:20.100 of the clinic
00:35:21.320 because that's a really good place
00:35:22.560 to find out where things are going on.
00:35:24.920 And I remember talking to one woman
00:35:26.660 in the clinic in Brixton
00:35:28.460 who was freaking out
00:35:29.940 because the list was running late
00:35:33.820 and she'd got to go and collect her toddler
00:35:37.300 from nursery.
00:35:39.460 And she starts explaining to me
00:35:41.880 that the reason why she's having this termination 1.00
00:35:45.600 is actually because of her little boy.
00:35:49.620 And the situation is that
00:35:51.860 she'd split up with her little boy's dad.
00:35:56.480 She's got a really good relationship
00:35:58.600 with her little boy's dad.
00:35:59.940 And the little boy,
00:36:01.280 and this is the crucial thing,
00:36:02.800 the little boy has got a really good relationship
00:36:04.720 with his dad.
00:36:06.060 She's now pregnant by a new boyfriend 1.00
00:36:08.240 who she thinks is great fun for her.
00:36:12.460 But she says,
00:36:13.540 unlike her little boy's dad,
00:36:15.880 who is a brilliant dad,
00:36:17.200 she thinks this guy
00:36:18.540 would be a disastrous father.
00:36:21.440 And she knows that if she has this baby,
00:36:27.260 it's going to severely disrupt
00:36:30.220 the relationship that her existing child has got
00:36:35.580 because it's just going to throw
00:36:36.740 the whole thing out of kilter.
00:36:38.780 And she said to me,
00:36:40.440 and you know there are some things
00:36:42.400 that just stick in your mind,
00:36:44.200 and she's saying,
00:36:44.840 I actually told my current boyfriend
00:36:48.340 if he moved to Australia,
00:36:51.300 I'd probably have this baby,
00:36:53.760 but he's not going to move to Australia.
00:36:56.120 And I can't have him in my life
00:36:59.140 and my little boy's life
00:37:00.900 on an ongoing basis
00:37:02.340 in the way that it would be
00:37:03.680 if I had his baby.
00:37:05.460 Those, I mean,
00:37:06.780 talk about the wisdom of Solomon
00:37:09.280 to make these decisions.
00:37:12.920 Those are the kind of tangles
00:37:15.280 that women's lives are like. 0.99
00:37:17.740 It's complex.
00:37:19.160 It's difficult.
00:37:20.900 So it worries me
00:37:24.100 when people and, you know,
00:37:27.940 a lot of the people
00:37:28.940 on the anti-abortion side,
00:37:31.800 you know,
00:37:33.160 are taking highfalutin moral position.
00:37:36.160 That's wrong.
00:37:36.700 This is wrong.
00:37:37.840 You know,
00:37:38.360 sometimes it takes the wisdom of Solomon
00:37:40.620 to make these decisions.
00:37:42.460 Somebody's got to make it.
00:37:44.300 The woman's pregnant. 1.00
00:37:45.240 She's either going to have a baby 1.00
00:37:46.620 or she isn't.
00:37:47.500 That is very binary.
00:37:49.560 So who decides?
00:37:50.900 You have to let her make the decision.
00:37:53.680 Francis, before you jump in,
00:37:54.680 can I make one judge a comment?
00:37:56.480 So there is a voice in my head
00:38:00.620 that goes,
00:38:01.300 that's somebody who's managing
00:38:03.200 her relationships 0.87
00:38:04.560 by killing somebody else. 0.99
00:38:06.220 Like, do we, 0.98
00:38:07.420 why is that?
00:38:08.200 Well, you see.
00:38:09.200 But that's what's happening, isn't it?
00:38:10.260 No, but I can,
00:38:11.480 you see,
00:38:12.000 so the point is,
00:38:13.340 is that if you honestly
00:38:15.860 believe
00:38:17.420 in your heart of hearts
00:38:20.180 that the
00:38:22.500 embryo,
00:38:24.780 fetus,
00:38:25.800 call it what you will,
00:38:27.340 that
00:38:27.680 human life
00:38:29.920 inside that woman
00:38:31.440 that doesn't even know
00:38:33.800 it's alive yet,
00:38:35.020 if you think
00:38:37.120 that has
00:38:38.920 the moral equivalence
00:38:41.760 of
00:38:43.340 us
00:38:44.780 or even
00:38:46.500 that woman's 1.00
00:38:48.260 little
00:38:48.920 two-year-old,
00:38:50.660 then
00:38:51.640 there's no
00:38:53.000 answer
00:38:54.000 to what you say.
00:38:55.840 You're obviously
00:38:56.420 completely right.
00:38:57.340 And there are some people
00:38:58.820 who genuinely,
00:39:01.060 genuinely
00:39:01.540 believe
00:39:02.200 like that.
00:39:03.620 But
00:39:04.120 I actually think
00:39:05.480 that
00:39:06.000 most of us
00:39:07.740 really
00:39:09.100 don't
00:39:10.040 think
00:39:10.620 that.
00:39:11.920 And the way
00:39:12.340 that I look at it
00:39:13.320 is,
00:39:15.900 and I've thought about this,
00:39:16.840 I actually
00:39:17.880 struggled with
00:39:18.580 infertility
00:39:19.220 for a really
00:39:20.360 long
00:39:21.280 time.
00:39:23.320 And there was
00:39:24.180 a time when
00:39:25.120 Frank and I
00:39:26.000 were told
00:39:26.460 that we would
00:39:27.100 never have a child
00:39:27.920 and
00:39:29.140 had kind of
00:39:30.420 come to terms
00:39:31.060 with that.
00:39:31.860 And then
00:39:32.400 my son Jacob,
00:39:34.380 who you know,
00:39:35.180 you know,
00:39:35.680 kind of
00:39:36.580 is conceived
00:39:38.020 and
00:39:38.720 it was
00:39:39.680 absolutely
00:39:40.700 wonderful.
00:39:42.380 And
00:39:42.480 I
00:39:44.220 value
00:39:46.440 life
00:39:47.940 in
00:39:48.300 the womb.
00:39:50.780 I,
00:39:51.120 it
00:39:51.700 disturbs
00:39:53.320 me
00:39:53.720 when people
00:39:54.740 say,
00:39:55.000 oh,
00:39:55.020 it's just like
00:39:55.440 cancer or
00:39:56.100 something like,
00:39:56.740 you know,
00:39:57.340 it's not,
00:39:57.940 you know,
00:39:58.280 it isn't really
00:39:59.020 human life.
00:40:00.260 It's obviously
00:40:01.160 human life.
00:40:02.960 But,
00:40:03.480 and I value it
00:40:04.220 hugely,
00:40:04.780 but I don't
00:40:05.620 give it
00:40:06.380 as much
00:40:07.440 value
00:40:08.160 as say
00:40:09.620 that lady, 1.00
00:40:11.660 that lass, 1.00
00:40:12.640 I was just
00:40:13.180 talking about
00:40:14.240 there's her
00:40:16.160 and there's her
00:40:17.220 son and there's
00:40:18.080 the existing
00:40:18.680 people in their
00:40:19.460 lives
00:40:19.980 who are trying
00:40:20.940 to manage
00:40:21.420 stuff.
00:40:21.780 so I give
00:40:22.160 it huge
00:40:22.580 value,
00:40:23.040 but not
00:40:23.300 as much
00:40:23.640 value
00:40:23.940 as that.
00:40:24.960 Do you
00:40:25.160 think the
00:40:25.780 reason that
00:40:26.540 the statistic
00:40:27.240 you quoted,
00:40:27.880 one in three
00:40:28.420 women has 0.84
00:40:29.880 an abortion
00:40:30.380 is because
00:40:31.100 of the type
00:40:31.580 of society
00:40:32.100 that we
00:40:32.480 live in
00:40:32.800 now where
00:40:33.180 sex is 0.97
00:40:33.860 seen as 0.73
00:40:34.320 a commodity.
00:40:35.560 It's seen
00:40:36.320 as,
00:40:36.700 you know,
00:40:37.720 something that
00:40:38.240 you can do.
00:40:38.840 No strings
00:40:39.320 attached,
00:40:39.800 there's going
00:40:40.060 to be no
00:40:40.460 consequences
00:40:41.140 from it.
00:40:42.160 The fact
00:40:42.600 that you
00:40:42.860 spoke to
00:40:43.340 me,
00:40:43.760 or you
00:40:44.080 spoke to
00:40:44.440 us
00:40:44.620 rather,
00:40:45.040 about
00:40:45.320 contraceptions,
00:40:46.200 that is
00:40:46.420 not as
00:40:46.940 effective as
00:40:48.900 we've been
00:40:49.300 led to
00:40:49.700 believe that
00:40:50.360 there's
00:40:50.740 something else
00:40:51.240 that I
00:40:51.500 want to
00:40:51.720 explore.
00:40:52.320 Do you
00:40:52.540 think that
00:40:52.860 is a
00:40:53.120 result of
00:40:53.580 all of
00:40:53.840 these
00:40:54.020 things?
00:40:55.460 So what
00:40:56.140 I think
00:40:56.420 is going
00:40:56.820 on at
00:40:57.120 the moment
00:40:57.600 is that
00:40:58.940 I think
00:40:59.940 that whether
00:41:01.180 you think
00:41:01.620 it's right
00:41:02.140 or whether
00:41:02.800 you think
00:41:03.400 it's wrong,
00:41:05.300 sex in 0.70
00:41:06.200 our minds
00:41:07.040 is not
00:41:08.300 linked to
00:41:09.240 reproduction.
00:41:10.800 You don't
00:41:11.400 think when
00:41:13.020 I'm making
00:41:14.640 no assumptions
00:41:15.300 about,
00:41:15.680 well,
00:41:15.880 you clearly
00:41:16.820 said you
00:41:17.440 I have 0.97
00:41:18.460 had sex 0.66
00:41:18.900 once. 0.93
00:41:19.560 You have 0.77
00:41:19.880 had sex 0.98
00:41:20.460 with a 1.00
00:41:21.220 woman.
00:41:21.640 Yes.
00:41:22.080 Right,
00:41:22.400 okay.
00:41:23.420 Even with
00:41:24.760 the woman 0.98
00:41:25.460 that you
00:41:25.900 are with
00:41:26.620 on an
00:41:27.060 ongoing
00:41:27.400 basis,
00:41:28.720 you do
00:41:29.140 not expect
00:41:30.380 every time
00:41:31.280 you have 0.84
00:41:31.860 sex that 0.97
00:41:33.040 it's going
00:41:33.340 to result
00:41:33.800 in a
00:41:34.300 child.
00:41:34.900 We have
00:41:35.240 learnt
00:41:36.020 to separate
00:41:36.580 that and
00:41:37.380 I think
00:41:37.880 that for
00:41:38.780 most people
00:41:39.480 it's even
00:41:40.060 more separate
00:41:40.640 than that.
00:41:41.260 They simply
00:41:41.660 don't expect
00:41:42.940 to be able
00:41:45.520 to prevent
00:41:46.180 pregnancy
00:41:46.740 and I
00:41:47.320 think most
00:41:48.120 people,
00:41:49.240 men as
00:41:49.760 well as
00:41:50.220 women, 1.00
00:41:50.880 would rather
00:41:51.500 prevent
00:41:52.000 pregnancy
00:41:52.600 but when
00:41:53.820 pregnancy
00:41:54.600 happens
00:41:55.460 and they
00:41:58.880 haven't
00:41:59.160 wanted it,
00:42:00.380 they expect
00:42:01.060 to be able
00:42:01.820 to put
00:42:03.080 that situation
00:42:04.180 right and I
00:42:05.100 think abortion
00:42:05.680 is seen as a
00:42:06.340 backstop.
00:42:06.940 and I
00:42:07.940 think that's
00:42:08.280 just the
00:42:08.600 way it
00:42:08.960 is and
00:42:10.980 that's
00:42:11.240 very
00:42:11.820 different
00:42:12.540 to the
00:42:14.780 way that
00:42:15.220 things were
00:42:16.280 even when
00:42:17.440 you know I
00:42:18.260 was young
00:42:19.220 and growing
00:42:19.940 up when
00:42:20.620 you know I
00:42:23.360 remember
00:42:23.700 going on
00:42:25.220 the pill
00:42:25.960 when I
00:42:26.560 was a
00:42:27.120 teenager
00:42:27.660 and being
00:42:29.400 terrified of
00:42:30.880 the prospect
00:42:31.420 of getting
00:42:33.200 pregnant,
00:42:34.080 absolutely
00:42:34.560 petrified of
00:42:35.960 it and
00:42:37.780 I think
00:42:38.060 that's not
00:42:38.460 the way
00:42:38.740 that young
00:42:39.120 people see
00:42:40.480 things now
00:42:41.340 whether it's
00:42:44.180 right,
00:42:44.420 whether it's
00:42:44.780 wrong,
00:42:45.720 it is
00:42:46.960 and we
00:42:48.680 have to
00:42:49.120 cope with
00:42:50.000 that and
00:42:53.420 so I
00:42:55.400 don't think
00:42:56.060 that abortion 1.00
00:42:57.080 is particularly
00:42:57.840 the problem,
00:42:59.540 I think it's
00:43:00.340 the solution
00:43:01.100 to a number
00:43:02.600 of various
00:43:03.360 different
00:43:04.240 problems
00:43:04.920 that women 0.97
00:43:06.420 face.
00:43:07.740 And what's
00:43:08.060 a man's
00:43:08.500 role in
00:43:08.840 all of
00:43:09.100 this and
00:43:09.440 because I
00:43:09.840 remember a
00:43:10.560 former partner
00:43:11.100 I was with
00:43:11.520 we had a
00:43:11.980 discussion
00:43:12.440 what would
00:43:12.840 happen if
00:43:13.300 we had a
00:43:14.220 child because
00:43:15.180 we weren't in
00:43:16.000 a position to
00:43:16.660 raise it and
00:43:17.080 she was like
00:43:17.380 well I just
00:43:17.780 have an
00:43:18.060 abortion and
00:43:19.060 I remember
00:43:19.400 thinking well
00:43:20.040 obviously that
00:43:20.640 I'm for
00:43:22.620 abortion but I 0.96
00:43:23.240 was thinking
00:43:23.560 do I not
00:43:24.400 have a say
00:43:24.840 in this?
00:43:26.220 You know
00:43:26.460 it's I
00:43:27.400 mean it's
00:43:28.320 my child
00:43:28.800 as well
00:43:29.320 at what
00:43:30.660 point did
00:43:31.560 you see
00:43:31.840 and I know
00:43:32.620 there'll be
00:43:32.920 people out
00:43:33.340 there going
00:43:33.680 you're a
00:43:34.000 man
00:43:34.180 but it's
00:43:36.440 important.
00:43:37.900 I think
00:43:38.240 it is
00:43:40.720 important or
00:43:41.260 at least put
00:43:41.660 it like this
00:43:42.060 it's not
00:43:42.400 unimportant
00:43:43.080 and I
00:43:45.840 think that
00:43:46.300 most men
00:43:47.220 you know
00:43:48.320 are deeply
00:43:50.320 interested
00:43:51.140 in
00:43:51.880 interested
00:43:53.240 at least
00:43:53.860 interested
00:43:54.400 in whether
00:43:54.860 or not
00:43:55.160 they father
00:43:55.620 a
00:43:56.040 whether or
00:43:57.240 not they
00:43:57.560 father a
00:43:58.240 child
00:44:00.060 but at
00:44:01.260 the end
00:44:01.640 of the
00:44:02.000 day
00:44:02.480 when it
00:44:04.700 comes down
00:44:05.400 to the
00:44:05.840 when it
00:44:06.960 comes down
00:44:07.380 to making
00:44:07.740 a hard
00:44:08.120 decision
00:44:08.640 as I said
00:44:09.660 right at
00:44:10.040 the beginning
00:44:10.400 of this
00:44:10.720 discussion
00:44:11.200 it is a
00:44:11.780 woman's 0.82
00:44:12.080 body
00:44:12.320 and I
00:44:12.640 don't
00:44:12.800 think
00:44:13.000 that a
00:44:13.320 man can
00:44:13.720 decide
00:44:14.340 about
00:44:15.540 that
00:44:16.180 so I
00:44:17.660 don't
00:44:18.000 think
00:44:18.400 that a
00:44:19.220 man
00:44:19.680 should
00:44:20.920 ever
00:44:21.500 actually
00:44:22.920 legally
00:44:23.380 they're
00:44:23.700 not in
00:44:24.200 a position
00:44:24.760 to ever
00:44:26.360 say
00:44:27.000 whether
00:44:27.880 a woman 0.57
00:44:28.300 can
00:44:28.820 or can't
00:44:29.640 have an
00:44:30.220 abortion
00:44:30.760 regardless
00:44:31.840 of their
00:44:32.360 relationship
00:44:33.080 to the
00:44:33.480 pregnancy
00:44:33.980 and I
00:44:34.940 think
00:44:35.140 legally
00:44:35.960 that's
00:44:36.480 right
00:44:36.920 but you
00:44:37.600 know
00:44:37.720 something
00:44:38.060 when
00:44:38.840 women 1.00
00:44:39.940 come into
00:44:40.580 an abortion
00:44:41.100 clinic
00:44:41.600 usually the
00:44:43.220 guy's there
00:44:43.760 as well
00:44:44.160 I mean
00:44:45.240 they really
00:44:46.420 are
00:44:46.720 it's
00:44:47.360 usually
00:44:48.260 a decision
00:44:49.720 that they've
00:44:50.380 made
00:44:50.620 together
00:44:51.160 because
00:44:52.320 they're
00:44:54.100 usually
00:44:54.380 in a
00:44:54.660 sexual
00:44:54.960 relationship
00:44:55.640 you know
00:44:56.180 and the
00:44:57.960 women 1.00
00:44:58.180 who come
00:44:59.060 in on
00:44:59.700 their own
00:45:00.180 or who
00:45:01.700 haven't
00:45:02.560 discussed
00:45:02.960 it
00:45:03.320 with
00:45:04.020 the
00:45:04.380 guy
00:45:04.720 are the
00:45:05.580 ones
00:45:05.860 who are
00:45:06.200 not in
00:45:06.580 a
00:45:06.700 relationship
00:45:07.200 with the
00:45:07.680 guy
00:45:07.980 so yeah
00:45:10.500 you know
00:45:10.840 I think
00:45:11.240 you know
00:45:11.760 men
00:45:12.200 matter
00:45:13.880 in this
00:45:15.560 but they
00:45:16.800 can't have
00:45:17.320 the deciding
00:45:17.980 vote
00:45:18.480 pregnancy
00:45:21.040 is not
00:45:22.260 an equal
00:45:22.600 situation
00:45:23.320 no it's
00:45:23.880 not
00:45:24.080 you know
00:45:24.360 as my
00:45:24.760 granny
00:45:25.020 would say
00:45:25.660 a man
00:45:26.580 can always
00:45:26.980 put his
00:45:27.300 hat on
00:45:27.680 and walk
00:45:28.040 away
00:45:28.400 the woman 0.98
00:45:29.880 is literally
00:45:31.100 carrying
00:45:31.980 the
00:45:32.920 consequences
00:45:33.820 and let's
00:45:35.160 talk about
00:45:35.540 contraception
00:45:36.300 a bit
00:45:36.480 because you
00:45:36.920 touched on
00:45:37.560 that
00:45:37.780 and that
00:45:38.140 is something
00:45:38.660 that I've
00:45:40.060 never heard
00:45:40.720 and certainly
00:45:41.960 doesn't get
00:45:42.640 told to me
00:45:43.200 by all the
00:45:43.740 adverts
00:45:44.260 etc
00:45:44.760 etc
00:45:45.220 etc
00:45:45.540 so let's
00:45:45.980 explore that
00:45:46.660 well
00:45:47.280 you know
00:45:47.780 so
00:45:48.260 think about
00:45:51.020 it like
00:45:51.440 this
00:45:51.920 about
00:45:53.300 half
00:45:54.600 of
00:45:55.520 the
00:45:55.820 women 1.00
00:45:56.140 that are
00:45:56.760 seen
00:45:57.320 at
00:45:57.700 Bpass
00:45:58.300 half of
00:45:59.100 them
00:45:59.340 say that
00:46:02.820 they're using
00:46:03.580 a method
00:46:04.360 of contraception
00:46:05.420 at the time
00:46:06.720 that they
00:46:07.220 conceived
00:46:07.800 now you
00:46:08.900 might just
00:46:09.340 say
00:46:09.680 well they
00:46:10.780 probably
00:46:11.220 would
00:46:11.660 wouldn't
00:46:11.980 they
00:46:12.220 and
00:46:13.220 when it
00:46:14.000 comes to
00:46:14.580 condom
00:46:15.060 use
00:46:15.600 you know
00:46:18.560 I think
00:46:18.940 it probably
00:46:19.380 is the
00:46:19.800 case
00:46:20.200 that
00:46:20.660 a fair
00:46:21.760 amount
00:46:22.000 of
00:46:22.180 condom
00:46:22.540 failure
00:46:23.080 is
00:46:23.440 failure
00:46:23.820 to
00:46:24.120 get it
00:46:24.520 out
00:46:24.760 of the
00:46:25.000 packet
00:46:25.300 and
00:46:26.120 on
00:46:26.840 to
00:46:27.360 the
00:46:27.720 right
00:46:27.980 body
00:46:28.280 part
00:46:28.760 when
00:46:29.120 you're
00:46:29.640 having 0.99
00:46:29.960 sex 0.74
00:46:30.680 but
00:46:32.000 there
00:46:32.280 are
00:46:32.500 a
00:46:32.720 massive
00:46:33.300 number
00:46:33.720 of
00:46:34.300 women 1.00
00:46:34.680 who
00:46:35.220 come
00:46:35.640 in
00:46:35.880 who
00:46:36.260 are
00:46:36.880 using
00:46:37.300 contraceptive
00:46:38.060 pills
00:46:38.480 and
00:46:39.540 using
00:46:40.060 other
00:46:40.900 methods
00:46:41.740 of
00:46:42.080 contraception
00:46:42.860 that you
00:46:43.160 would expect
00:46:43.640 to be
00:46:43.940 more
00:46:44.120 reliable
00:46:44.600 and I
00:46:45.420 think
00:46:45.660 that
00:46:45.980 one of
00:46:47.400 the
00:46:47.540 things
00:46:47.840 is
00:46:48.200 is
00:46:48.440 that
00:46:48.860 we
00:46:49.980 tend
00:46:50.600 to
00:46:50.820 think
00:46:51.100 about
00:46:51.420 contraception
00:46:52.220 as
00:46:52.440 being
00:46:53.040 unfallible
00:46:55.660 you know
00:46:56.260 it's
00:46:56.800 just
00:46:57.060 simply
00:46:57.420 not
00:46:57.740 failing
00:46:58.260 so
00:46:59.280 you know
00:47:01.100 in
00:47:01.640 tests
00:47:02.420 the
00:47:05.640 contraceptive
00:47:06.380 pill
00:47:06.720 will
00:47:07.020 come up
00:47:07.740 with
00:47:08.000 being
00:47:08.720 what is
00:47:09.560 it
00:47:09.720 having
00:47:09.960 a
00:47:10.180 failure
00:47:10.500 rate
00:47:11.000 of
00:47:11.440 half
00:47:12.480 you know
00:47:13.060 0.5
00:47:14.380 half
00:47:15.720 a
00:47:15.900 percent
00:47:16.400 but
00:47:17.360 even
00:47:17.700 that
00:47:18.280 when
00:47:18.580 you
00:47:18.740 think
00:47:18.980 about
00:47:19.320 it
00:47:19.620 is
00:47:20.200 if
00:47:21.460 you
00:47:21.600 take
00:47:21.900 it
00:47:22.200 according
00:47:22.960 to
00:47:23.260 those
00:47:23.880 scientific
00:47:24.780 statistics
00:47:25.600 when
00:47:26.460 the
00:47:26.600 contraceptive
00:47:27.260 pill
00:47:27.480 is
00:47:27.660 used
00:47:27.920 absolutely
00:47:28.420 perfectly
00:47:29.080 that
00:47:29.920 means
00:47:30.280 that
00:47:30.500 one
00:47:30.880 woman 0.99
00:47:31.280 in
00:47:32.240 200
00:47:33.400 will
00:47:34.560 become
00:47:34.820 pregnant 0.80
00:47:35.120 during
00:47:35.500 a
00:47:35.720 year
00:47:36.080 well
00:47:37.340 if
00:47:38.080 you've
00:47:38.340 got
00:47:38.700 3
00:47:39.140 million
00:47:39.480 using
00:47:39.940 the
00:47:40.620 pill
00:47:41.000 that
00:47:41.680 is
00:47:41.880 still
00:47:42.240 a
00:47:42.700 lot
00:47:42.880 of
00:47:43.080 women 1.00
00:47:43.380 and
00:47:44.500 if
00:47:44.860 you
00:47:45.000 take
00:47:45.340 it
00:47:45.700 where
00:47:46.040 you
00:47:46.240 think
00:47:46.480 about
00:47:46.920 the
00:47:47.440 pill's
00:47:47.760 effectiveness
00:47:48.320 in
00:47:48.800 real
00:47:49.340 life
00:47:50.080 where
00:47:51.280 we
00:47:52.320 forget
00:47:52.580 to
00:47:52.740 take
00:47:52.960 it
00:47:53.060 every
00:47:53.280 now
00:47:53.460 and
00:47:53.560 again
00:47:53.820 or
00:47:54.040 you
00:47:54.180 have
00:47:54.380 a
00:47:54.560 stomach
00:47:54.820 upset
00:47:55.260 or
00:47:56.240 you
00:47:57.000 know
00:47:57.140 what
00:47:57.440 have
00:47:57.720 you
00:47:57.960 well
00:47:58.240 that's
00:47:58.520 a
00:47:58.640 failure
00:47:58.900 rate
00:47:59.360 of
00:47:59.520 about
00:47:59.780 4%
00:48:00.480 so
00:48:00.900 that's
00:48:01.200 four
00:48:01.560 women 1.00
00:48:01.860 in
00:48:02.220 100
00:48:02.620 who
00:48:03.560 will
00:48:03.700 become
00:48:03.980 pregnant 0.80
00:48:04.360 and
00:48:05.380 we
00:48:06.100 just
00:48:06.460 don't
00:48:07.600 think
00:48:08.300 about
00:48:09.220 that
00:48:09.680 I
00:48:10.080 mean
00:48:10.220 the
00:48:10.380 point
00:48:10.700 what I
00:48:11.340 think
00:48:11.860 is
00:48:12.940 ultimately
00:48:13.800 we need
00:48:15.340 to
00:48:15.600 recognise
00:48:16.180 that
00:48:17.680 abortion
00:48:18.420 is
00:48:19.520 in a
00:48:20.180 way
00:48:20.500 a
00:48:20.880 form
00:48:21.160 of
00:48:21.320 birth
00:48:21.540 control
00:48:22.100 and
00:48:24.260 there
00:48:25.580 are
00:48:25.900 a
00:48:27.060 range
00:48:27.760 of
00:48:27.940 methods
00:48:28.460 of
00:48:29.240 stopping
00:48:29.960 having
00:48:31.360 a
00:48:31.660 child
00:48:32.160 and
00:48:34.440 some
00:48:35.360 of
00:48:35.600 them
00:48:36.040 act
00:48:37.320 before
00:48:38.820 you
00:48:39.380 conceive
00:48:42.220 some
00:48:43.700 of
00:48:43.920 them
00:48:44.180 like
00:48:44.480 abortion
00:48:46.260 act
00:48:47.180 after
00:48:47.920 you've
00:48:48.680 conceived
00:48:49.180 but
00:48:50.040 they
00:48:50.200 all
00:48:50.540 at
00:48:50.680 the
00:48:50.820 end
00:48:50.980 of
00:48:51.120 the
00:48:51.260 day
00:48:51.580 wrap
00:48:52.260 up
00:48:52.700 as
00:48:53.300 being
00:48:53.560 a
00:48:53.740 way
00:48:54.100 of
00:48:54.660 stopping
00:48:55.540 a
00:48:56.140 child
00:48:56.400 from
00:48:56.800 being
00:48:57.440 born
00:48:57.820 and
00:48:58.020 I
00:48:58.160 think
00:48:58.400 if
00:48:58.600 we
00:48:58.900 accept
00:49:00.660 it
00:49:01.040 like
00:49:01.340 that
00:49:01.780 it
00:49:02.340 probably
00:49:03.080 helps
00:49:04.480 but
00:49:04.940 as
00:49:06.480 you
00:49:06.680 say
00:49:07.020 women 1.00
00:49:07.480 don't
00:49:07.900 expect
00:49:08.320 contraception
00:49:09.040 to
00:49:09.240 fail
00:49:09.600 men
00:49:10.340 don't
00:49:10.700 expect
00:49:11.080 contraception
00:49:11.800 to
00:49:12.000 fail
00:49:12.340 so it's
00:49:12.980 hardly
00:49:13.180 surprising
00:49:13.720 that they
00:49:14.180 end up
00:49:14.500 in a
00:49:14.860 B-pass
00:49:15.340 clinic
00:49:15.720 when
00:49:17.160 it
00:49:17.720 does
00:49:18.220 well
00:49:18.880 that's
00:49:19.820 not
00:49:19.940 what we
00:49:20.120 get
00:49:20.300 fed
00:49:20.520 by
00:49:20.680 society
00:49:21.160 and
00:49:21.300 certainly
00:49:21.660 not
00:49:22.660 what we
00:49:23.000 get
00:49:23.160 fed
00:49:23.340 by
00:49:23.520 advertisers
00:49:24.060 well
00:49:25.100 you know
00:49:25.720 look
00:49:26.360 think
00:49:27.180 about
00:49:27.440 it
00:49:27.580 like
00:49:27.800 this
00:49:28.240 you know
00:49:28.720 it
00:49:28.920 wouldn't
00:49:29.080 make
00:49:29.280 for a
00:49:29.580 great
00:49:29.760 advert
00:49:30.120 you're
00:49:31.360 only
00:49:31.480 going
00:49:31.620 to
00:49:31.680 get
00:49:31.840 pregnant 0.80
00:49:32.180 once
00:49:32.660 out
00:49:32.860 of
00:49:32.980 ten
00:49:33.220 times
00:49:33.500 it
00:49:33.920 wouldn't
00:49:34.260 but
00:49:34.420 you know
00:49:34.780 think
00:49:35.560 about
00:49:35.880 it
00:49:36.080 like
00:49:36.380 this
00:49:36.940 right
00:49:37.680 you
00:49:38.060 you
00:49:38.380 always
00:49:38.700 think
00:49:38.900 your
00:49:39.080 car
00:49:39.380 is
00:49:39.580 going
00:49:39.740 to
00:49:39.900 start
00:49:40.340 in
00:49:40.540 the
00:49:40.640 morning
00:49:41.000 and
00:49:41.860 sometimes
00:49:42.400 it
00:49:42.660 is
00:49:42.840 a
00:49:43.020 thing
00:49:47.760 that's
00:49:48.120 going
00:49:48.380 on
00:49:48.640 I
00:49:49.180 you
00:49:49.980 know
00:49:50.140 I
00:49:50.420 I
00:49:51.220 passed
00:49:53.220 my
00:49:53.540 driving
00:49:53.980 test
00:49:54.520 right
00:49:55.520 I
00:49:55.780 passed
00:49:56.240 my
00:49:56.460 driving
00:49:56.820 test
00:49:57.380 I
00:49:58.140 know
00:49:58.580 the
00:49:58.860 highway
00:49:59.220 code
00:50:00.080 you
00:50:01.360 know
00:50:01.960 the
00:50:03.060 my
00:50:03.780 company
00:50:04.240 as
00:50:04.560 BPAS
00:50:05.560 would
00:50:06.100 have been
00:50:06.660 so
00:50:07.040 delighted
00:50:07.740 when I
00:50:08.380 left
00:50:08.880 and I
00:50:09.180 didn't
00:50:09.440 have a
00:50:09.720 company
00:50:09.960 car
00:50:10.280 anymore
00:50:10.680 because
00:50:11.260 the
00:50:11.460 number
00:50:11.680 of
00:50:11.860 times
00:50:12.180 I
00:50:12.380 managed
00:50:12.740 to
00:50:13.060 back
00:50:13.880 into
00:50:14.160 things
00:50:14.700 getting
00:50:15.380 out
00:50:15.640 of
00:50:15.760 a
00:50:15.880 car
00:50:16.120 park
00:50:16.660 you
00:50:17.460 know
00:50:17.740 so
00:50:18.320 contraception
00:50:20.220 is probably
00:50:20.960 about as
00:50:21.400 reliable as
00:50:22.080 my
00:50:22.260 driving
00:50:22.760 let's
00:50:23.440 look at
00:50:23.840 it
00:50:23.960 like
00:50:24.140 that
00:50:24.460 and
00:50:25.280 would
00:50:25.440 you
00:50:25.560 classify
00:50:25.960 as a
00:50:26.260 morning
00:50:26.480 after pill
00:50:27.080 as a
00:50:27.700 as an
00:50:28.260 abortion
00:50:28.700 the
00:50:29.320 morning
00:50:29.580 after pill
00:50:29.980 is
00:50:30.160 definitely
00:50:30.780 a method
00:50:31.300 of
00:50:31.480 contraception
00:50:32.300 legally
00:50:33.060 right
00:50:34.640 morally
00:50:35.260 you can
00:50:35.840 go all
00:50:36.180 over the
00:50:36.500 place
00:50:36.900 with this
00:50:37.540 kind
00:50:37.760 of
00:50:38.080 abortion
00:50:38.740 isn't
00:50:39.580 it
00:50:39.680 no
00:50:39.980 because
00:50:40.620 technically
00:50:42.020 in law
00:50:43.200 contraception
00:50:45.360 is something
00:50:46.160 that stops
00:50:47.920 a fertilised
00:50:49.260 egg
00:50:49.660 from
00:50:50.520 implanting
00:50:51.400 in the
00:50:52.180 womb
00:50:52.540 abortion
00:50:54.120 is something
00:50:55.080 that ends
00:50:56.400 a pregnancy
00:50:57.120 and that
00:50:57.980 means
00:50:58.460 it works
00:50:59.700 after
00:51:00.600 now the
00:51:01.480 point about
00:51:02.020 and the
00:51:02.280 reason why
00:51:02.840 it is
00:51:03.120 really
00:51:03.600 important
00:51:04.180 to
00:51:05.100 ram this
00:51:07.280 point
00:51:07.620 home
00:51:08.140 is that
00:51:08.860 if you're
00:51:09.160 already
00:51:09.540 pregnant 0.80
00:51:10.000 and you
00:51:10.640 take the
00:51:10.920 morning
00:51:11.120 after pill
00:51:11.800 it just
00:51:12.200 doesn't
00:51:12.520 work
00:51:12.980 so
00:51:14.140 that's
00:51:14.620 why
00:51:15.060 there's
00:51:16.260 an
00:51:16.540 important
00:51:17.040 distinction
00:51:18.000 although
00:51:19.960 there are
00:51:21.580 some
00:51:22.180 people
00:51:22.660 who say
00:51:23.200 well
00:51:23.500 hang on
00:51:24.300 a minute
00:51:24.500 here
00:51:24.740 I don't
00:51:25.520 know what
00:51:25.840 Carl
00:51:26.140 Miller's
00:51:26.920 views
00:51:27.220 were on
00:51:27.820 this
00:51:27.980 or whether
00:51:28.260 you talked
00:51:28.700 about it
00:51:29.260 but they'll
00:51:30.060 say well
00:51:30.400 you know
00:51:30.800 there's a
00:51:31.120 period of
00:51:31.560 time
00:51:31.960 when
00:51:32.580 an egg
00:51:33.040 has been
00:51:33.600 fertilised
00:51:34.640 but it
00:51:35.500 hasn't
00:51:35.980 implanted
00:51:36.540 in the
00:51:36.860 womb
00:51:37.120 yet
00:51:37.720 and
00:51:38.520 the
00:51:39.300 morning
00:51:39.540 after
00:51:39.840 pill
00:51:40.260 might
00:51:41.040 interfere
00:51:42.720 with
00:51:43.200 that
00:51:43.580 so
00:51:44.660 if
00:51:45.460 you
00:51:45.840 are
00:51:46.160 really
00:51:46.740 concerned
00:51:47.360 about
00:51:47.740 that
00:51:48.220 then
00:51:48.980 you
00:51:49.420 might
00:51:49.620 not
00:51:49.780 want
00:51:49.900 to
00:51:50.000 use
00:51:50.280 it
00:51:50.560 but I
00:51:51.280 think
00:51:51.420 most
00:51:51.660 people
00:51:51.920 are
00:51:52.120 and
00:51:52.880 certainly
00:51:53.180 legally
00:51:53.720 which
00:51:54.380 is why
00:51:54.880 abortion
00:51:55.640 in this
00:51:56.620 country
00:51:57.100 you can
00:51:57.580 only do
00:51:58.200 it
00:51:58.480 in
00:51:59.020 hospitals
00:51:59.700 or
00:52:00.340 licensed
00:52:01.440 clinics
00:52:02.080 now
00:52:04.820 you can
00:52:05.260 have
00:52:05.480 the
00:52:05.760 abortion
00:52:06.320 pill
00:52:06.680 at
00:52:06.860 home
00:52:07.300 but
00:52:07.860 it
00:52:08.000 still
00:52:08.400 has
00:52:08.740 to
00:52:08.900 be
00:52:09.300 sent
00:52:10.040 out
00:52:10.460 from
00:52:10.980 licensed
00:52:12.020 premises
00:52:12.540 whereas
00:52:12.940 the
00:52:13.160 morning
00:52:13.360 after
00:52:13.580 pill
00:52:13.800 you can
00:52:14.060 get
00:52:14.220 in
00:52:14.320 your
00:52:14.440 chemist
00:52:14.940 I'm
00:52:18.020 going to
00:52:18.180 have
00:52:18.280 another
00:52:18.540 go at
00:52:20.940 the
00:52:21.780 cherry
00:52:22.000 because
00:52:22.480 hey
00:52:23.720 Francis
00:52:24.160 do
00:52:24.580 you
00:52:24.760 like
00:52:25.020 books
00:52:25.460 I
00:52:25.940 tried
00:52:26.300 one
00:52:26.520 once
00:52:26.900 wasn't
00:52:27.320 for
00:52:27.540 me
00:52:27.760 mate
00:52:28.020 not
00:52:28.280 enough
00:52:28.580 pictures
00:52:29.040 of
00:52:29.300 fit
00:52:29.560 brown
00:52:29.960 birds
00:52:30.500 never
00:52:31.180 working
00:52:31.540 with
00:52:31.740 you
00:52:31.860 again
00:52:32.180 but
00:52:32.780 if
00:52:33.200 you
00:52:33.420 like
00:52:33.700 fantasy
00:52:34.160 check out
00:52:34.860 the
00:52:35.040 Ripples
00:52:35.340 in
00:52:35.540 reality
00:52:36.000 series
00:52:36.500 by
00:52:36.780 JS
00:52:37.280 Powell
00:52:37.640 they're
00:52:38.180 absolutely
00:52:38.640 brilliant
00:52:39.100 and they
00:52:39.560 have a
00:52:39.880 5
00:52:40.180 gold
00:52:40.780 star
00:52:41.060 rating
00:52:41.440 on
00:52:41.600 Amazon
00:52:41.900 I've
00:52:42.460 heard
00:52:42.640 of
00:52:42.780 them
00:52:42.940 they're
00:52:43.540 beautifully
00:52:44.180 written
00:52:44.620 and
00:52:45.100 completely
00:52:45.780 original
00:52:46.380 if
00:52:46.800 you
00:52:47.040 want
00:52:47.280 a
00:52:47.460 book
00:52:47.740 that
00:52:48.180 allows
00:52:48.640 you
00:52:48.820 to
00:52:49.040 delve
00:52:49.380 into
00:52:49.620 different
00:52:50.220 worlds
00:52:50.680 and
00:52:51.020 helps
00:52:51.340 you
00:52:51.520 escape
00:52:52.000 the
00:52:52.220 insanity
00:52:52.740 of
00:52:53.080 real
00:52:53.340 life
00:52:53.700 then
00:52:53.980 Ripples
00:52:54.500 in
00:52:54.740 reality
00:52:55.160 is
00:52:55.680 for
00:52:55.860 you
00:52:56.180 see
00:52:57.040 I
00:52:57.520 know
00:52:57.720 the
00:52:57.880 word
00:52:58.140 delve
00:52:58.680 so
00:52:59.080 I
00:52:59.240 do
00:52:59.460 read
00:52:59.760 books
00:53:00.240 amazing
00:53:00.880 just
00:53:01.460 imagine
00:53:01.800 books
00:53:02.140 written
00:53:02.400 in
00:53:02.620 the
00:53:02.760 style
00:53:03.040 of
00:53:03.200 Game
00:53:03.460 of
00:53:03.600 Thrones
00:53:03.960 Lord
00:53:04.260 of
00:53:04.380 the
00:53:04.480 Rings
00:53:04.740 Forgotten
00:53:05.220 Realms
00:53:05.580 with
00:53:05.960 an
00:53:06.080 added
00:53:06.320 pinch
00:53:06.600 of
00:53:06.720 Stargate
00:53:07.240 it's
00:53:07.640 catnip
00:53:08.060 for
00:53:08.220 people
00:53:08.440 like
00:53:08.640 me 0.52
00:53:08.940 virgins 0.98
00:53:09.920 she
00:53:12.360 started
00:53:12.780 a
00:53:12.960 publishing
00:53:13.360 company
00:53:13.760 named
00:53:14.120 Poppyfield
00:53:14.820 Publishing
00:53:15.400 and her
00:53:19.380 read
00:53:19.520 and
00:53:19.960 are
00:53:20.080 not
00:53:20.300 woke
00:53:20.660 book
00:53:21.120 one
00:53:21.360 is
00:53:21.500 Shadow
00:53:21.760 Step
00:53:22.120 and
00:53:23.040 book
00:53:23.360 two
00:53:23.720 gather
00:53:24.200 shadows
00:53:24.900 she's
00:53:25.940 currently
00:53:26.220 writing
00:53:26.680 book
00:53:26.980 number
00:53:27.200 three
00:53:27.540 I
00:53:28.040 can't
00:53:28.400 wait
00:53:28.700 I
00:53:29.200 don't
00:53:29.500 read
00:53:29.740 books
00:53:30.060 because
00:53:30.240 I
00:53:30.380 can
00:53:30.520 talk
00:53:30.760 to
00:53:30.940 girls 0.98
00:53:31.360 your
00:53:31.640 mum
00:53:31.780 doesn't
00:53:32.100 count
00:53:32.360 mate
00:53:32.600 and
00:53:33.080 by the
00:53:33.360 way
00:53:33.580 Jspal 0.56
00:53:34.180 is
00:53:34.500 a
00:53:34.620 big
00:53:34.780 supporter
00:53:35.220 of
00:53:35.360 Trigonometry
00:53:35.840 she
00:53:36.200 is
00:53:36.360 a
00:53:36.500 moderator
00:53:36.900 on
00:53:37.180 our
00:53:37.320 channel
00:53:37.640 and
00:53:38.080 we
00:53:38.200 really
00:53:38.580 appreciate
00:53:39.200 all
00:53:39.480 her
00:53:39.680 help
00:53:40.000 you
00:53:40.420 can
00:53:40.560 find
00:53:40.820 her
00:53:40.940 books
00:53:41.160 online
00:53:41.540 at
00:53:41.720 amazon
00:53:49.380 i'm
00:53:54.500 gonna
00:53:54.640 have
00:53:54.780 another
00:53:55.000 go
00:53:55.260 at
00:53:55.460 the
00:53:56.280 chair
00:53:56.480 because
00:53:56.960 i was
00:53:57.600 thinking
00:53:57.800 about
00:53:58.100 the
00:53:58.380 example
00:53:58.700 of
00:53:58.880 the
00:53:59.020 brixton
00:53:59.400 that
00:54:00.040 you
00:54:00.200 gave
00:54:00.560 and
00:54:00.760 you
00:54:00.920 said
00:54:01.260 well
00:54:02.220 people
00:54:02.860 yes
00:54:03.400 we
00:54:03.560 all
00:54:03.740 accept
00:54:04.120 that
00:54:04.460 it's
00:54:05.280 life
00:54:05.660 but
00:54:05.920 is
00:54:06.220 it
00:54:06.340 the
00:54:06.480 same
00:54:06.720 life
00:54:07.080 as
00:54:07.300 the
00:54:07.760 people
00:54:08.000 who
00:54:08.180 are
00:54:08.240 already
00:54:08.500 alive
00:54:08.800 but
00:54:09.360 we're
00:54:09.520 not
00:54:09.660 talking
00:54:09.880 about
00:54:10.120 killing 1.00
00:54:10.360 those 1.00
00:54:10.620 people
00:54:10.960 we're
00:54:11.880 talking
00:54:12.080 about
00:54:12.260 inconveniencing
00:54:13.000 them
00:54:13.280 or
00:54:14.060 causing
00:54:14.680 some
00:54:14.980 kind
00:54:15.220 of
00:54:15.340 difficulty
00:54:15.820 in
00:54:16.140 their
00:54:16.320 lives
00:54:16.780 or
00:54:17.200 a
00:54:18.180 reduction
00:54:18.520 in
00:54:18.780 their
00:54:18.940 quality
00:54:19.240 of
00:54:19.460 life
00:54:19.720 or
00:54:19.880 their
00:54:20.040 standards
00:54:20.340 of
00:54:20.580 living
00:54:20.820 or
00:54:21.160 problems
00:54:21.860 with
00:54:22.060 their
00:54:22.220 boyfriend
00:54:22.620 or
00:54:23.000 whatever
00:54:23.340 but
00:54:24.580 if we
00:54:25.440 accept
00:54:25.800 that
00:54:26.020 it's
00:54:26.280 a
00:54:26.540 form
00:54:26.860 of
00:54:27.040 life
00:54:27.440 yeah
00:54:28.340 i
00:54:29.600 don't
00:54:31.980 i don't
00:54:32.960 see
00:54:33.260 how you
00:54:33.820 can
00:54:34.080 you can
00:54:34.740 in
00:54:35.960 any
00:54:36.380 other
00:54:36.740 context
00:54:37.400 would
00:54:38.880 we
00:54:39.100 ever
00:54:39.440 say
00:54:39.780 well
00:54:40.040 you know
00:54:40.340 what
00:54:40.620 you know
00:54:41.180 francis
00:54:41.640 is
00:54:41.800 inconvenience
00:54:42.520 in
00:54:42.680 me
00:54:42.840 and
00:54:43.020 my
00:54:43.200 quality
00:54:43.480 of
00:54:43.640 life
00:54:43.840 is
00:54:43.940 not
00:54:44.060 quite
00:54:44.240 as
00:54:44.360 good
00:54:44.500 right
00:54:45.580 you
00:54:46.240 feel it
00:54:46.840 but
00:54:48.600 i've
00:54:48.740 never
00:54:48.900 done
00:54:49.160 it
00:54:49.300 that's
00:54:49.440 my
00:54:49.560 point
00:54:49.840 no
00:54:50.140 and
00:54:50.640 i can
00:54:51.580 see
00:54:51.880 where
00:54:52.060 you're
00:54:52.260 coming
00:54:52.480 from
00:54:52.820 pro-life
00:54:53.280 when it
00:54:53.520 comes to
00:54:53.840 francis
00:54:54.360 i'm pro-life
00:54:55.940 when it
00:54:56.160 comes to
00:54:56.440 francis
00:54:56.780 as well
00:54:57.140 no i
00:54:57.440 think
00:54:57.560 that's
00:54:57.820 you know
00:54:58.200 i think
00:54:58.620 you know
00:54:59.620 but look
00:55:00.140 there is
00:55:01.080 no
00:55:01.900 comparable
00:55:03.080 situation
00:55:04.540 is this
00:55:05.100 really it
00:55:05.620 is this
00:55:06.160 really the
00:55:06.620 thing
00:55:06.880 this is
00:55:07.740 not going
00:55:08.100 to get
00:55:08.340 resolved
00:55:08.720 and that's
00:55:09.200 because you
00:55:09.680 have
00:55:10.000 two
00:55:10.540 conflicting
00:55:11.260 sets
00:55:11.700 of rights
00:55:12.220 that are
00:55:12.880 very very
00:55:13.460 important
00:55:13.860 that we
00:55:14.180 hold in
00:55:14.560 very high
00:55:15.060 regard
00:55:15.380 which is
00:55:15.800 independence
00:55:16.500 and bodily
00:55:17.040 autonomy
00:55:17.420 on the
00:55:17.700 one hand
00:55:18.120 and your
00:55:18.760 right to
00:55:19.100 life
00:55:19.300 on the
00:55:19.580 other
00:55:19.720 and these
00:55:20.320 issues
00:55:20.620 are just
00:55:21.080 physiologically
00:55:21.820 in conflict
00:55:22.640 you can't
00:55:23.220 detach them
00:55:23.660 from each
00:55:24.000 other
00:55:24.160 we're always
00:55:24.800 going to be
00:55:25.160 in this
00:55:25.420 situation
00:55:25.860 there is
00:55:26.240 no right
00:55:26.600 answer
00:55:26.940 i think
00:55:28.040 that it
00:55:28.720 is actually
00:55:29.820 like that
00:55:30.600 there is
00:55:31.320 no halfway
00:55:32.360 house on
00:55:33.620 it but i
00:55:34.180 think
00:55:34.800 what is an
00:55:36.100 interesting thing
00:55:36.900 here is
00:55:37.860 the and i
00:55:38.700 don't want to
00:55:39.100 introduce a
00:55:39.660 huge amount
00:55:40.160 of marital
00:55:40.620 discord
00:55:41.180 into your
00:55:43.280 relationship
00:55:44.100 or whatever
00:55:45.500 but i think
00:55:47.640 that when
00:55:48.660 you say
00:55:49.480 oh it's
00:55:50.300 just a
00:55:50.580 matter of
00:55:50.840 inconvenience
00:55:51.640 or it's
00:55:52.120 just a
00:55:52.360 matter of
00:55:52.620 you know
00:55:53.060 and it's
00:55:53.500 just and
00:55:54.080 all of
00:55:54.500 this
00:55:54.700 weighed
00:55:55.140 up
00:55:55.620 you might
00:55:58.880 want to
00:55:59.180 talk to
00:55:59.540 someone
00:55:59.960 to a
00:56:00.920 woman who 0.99
00:56:01.580 is eight
00:56:02.220 months
00:56:02.520 pregnant 0.80
00:56:02.880 about what
00:56:04.260 it means
00:56:05.440 to be
00:56:06.920 pregnant 0.80
00:56:07.280 what
00:56:08.760 pregnancy
00:56:09.560 means
00:56:10.400 what
00:56:11.460 giving
00:56:13.040 birth to
00:56:13.880 a child
00:56:14.460 means
00:56:15.240 and all
00:56:17.600 of the
00:56:18.020 stuff
00:56:18.660 that goes
00:56:20.340 with it
00:56:21.080 physically
00:56:21.740 and emotionally
00:56:23.700 and
00:56:25.060 think about
00:56:27.220 whether
00:56:28.180 how
00:56:29.740 think about
00:56:31.340 how
00:56:32.000 reasonable
00:56:33.100 it is
00:56:33.900 to
00:56:35.140 say to
00:56:36.080 somebody
00:56:36.540 who
00:56:37.900 absolutely
00:56:39.320 does
00:56:40.420 not
00:56:41.120 want
00:56:41.940 that
00:56:42.440 to
00:56:42.920 happen
00:56:43.260 to
00:56:43.820 her
00:56:44.360 to
00:56:45.520 go
00:56:46.260 through
00:56:46.540 that
00:56:46.900 hold on
00:56:47.660 but that
00:56:48.160 isn't what
00:56:48.580 we're talking
00:56:49.020 about
00:56:49.280 we're talking
00:56:49.740 about the
00:56:50.160 example you
00:56:50.760 gave of
00:56:51.180 the woman 0.98
00:56:51.580 in Brixton
00:56:52.120 who would
00:56:52.960 quite happily
00:56:53.540 have had
00:56:53.900 the baby
00:56:54.340 if her
00:56:54.860 boyfriend
00:56:55.160 was in
00:56:55.560 another
00:56:55.780 country
00:56:56.200 so we're
00:56:57.460 not talking
00:56:57.840 about someone
00:56:58.300 who doesn't
00:56:58.820 want to
00:56:59.200 have the
00:56:59.520 baby
00:56:59.740 we're
00:56:59.960 talking
00:57:00.180 about
00:57:00.460 someone
00:57:00.800 who doesn't
00:57:01.580 want to
00:57:01.940 have the
00:57:02.220 baby
00:57:02.500 because it
00:57:03.440 inconveniences
00:57:04.420 them in
00:57:05.100 terms of
00:57:05.460 their
00:57:05.660 relationships
00:57:06.220 with other
00:57:06.740 people in
00:57:07.200 their life
00:57:07.580 oh no
00:57:08.300 I think
00:57:09.100 what I
00:57:10.280 was hearing
00:57:11.020 from that
00:57:11.900 story
00:57:12.360 and again
00:57:12.980 I think
00:57:13.440 it comes
00:57:13.800 down to
00:57:14.820 what goes
00:57:16.220 on with
00:57:17.120 this
00:57:17.520 is that
00:57:18.620 what I
00:57:19.160 heard
00:57:19.760 listening to
00:57:20.900 her
00:57:21.300 was that
00:57:22.200 she has
00:57:22.980 a son
00:57:23.860 who has
00:57:24.380 a very
00:57:25.180 important
00:57:25.700 relationship
00:57:26.340 with his
00:57:26.840 father
00:57:27.300 which would
00:57:28.660 be
00:57:29.240 blown 0.96
00:57:30.440 apart
00:57:31.160 if
00:57:32.660 another
00:57:33.620 man
00:57:34.180 is
00:57:34.780 introduced
00:57:35.360 into
00:57:36.660 the
00:57:36.900 mix
00:57:37.380 being
00:57:38.320 the
00:57:38.660 father
00:57:39.060 of
00:57:39.840 another
00:57:40.120 child
00:57:40.820 that
00:57:41.780 is
00:57:42.060 introduced
00:57:43.120 into
00:57:44.000 the
00:57:44.200 family
00:57:44.640 and
00:57:45.720 you're
00:57:47.080 right
00:57:47.400 it's
00:57:47.940 not
00:57:48.180 the
00:57:48.440 destruction
00:57:49.160 of
00:57:50.920 the
00:57:51.960 physicality
00:57:53.120 of
00:57:53.700 life
00:57:54.500 it's
00:57:54.860 not
00:57:55.000 the
00:57:55.180 stopping
00:57:55.460 of a
00:57:55.800 beating
00:57:56.080 heart
00:57:56.740 but
00:57:57.620 what
00:57:57.900 she
00:57:58.080 was
00:57:58.320 anticipating
00:57:59.240 was
00:58:00.260 the
00:58:00.500 end
00:58:01.080 of
00:58:01.320 life
00:58:01.860 as
00:58:02.480 we
00:58:02.800 know
00:58:03.120 it
00:58:03.320 it's
00:58:03.860 not
00:58:04.120 an
00:58:04.280 inconvenience
00:58:05.240 it's
00:58:06.000 not
00:58:06.300 just
00:58:07.460 things
00:58:07.820 being
00:58:08.100 a bit
00:58:08.360 disrupted
00:58:09.120 it's
00:58:10.260 the
00:58:10.460 end
00:58:10.880 of
00:58:11.040 her
00:58:11.240 family
00:58:11.620 situation
00:58:12.420 and
00:58:13.080 that
00:58:13.260 is
00:58:13.440 very
00:58:13.680 often
00:58:14.120 what
00:58:14.460 you
00:58:14.700 hear
00:58:15.080 from
00:58:15.360 women 1.00
00:58:15.680 is
00:58:16.840 I
00:58:18.540 cannot
00:58:19.420 cope
00:58:20.340 with
00:58:21.180 having
00:58:21.820 this
00:58:22.960 child
00:58:23.580 and
00:58:24.040 I'll
00:58:24.200 often
00:58:24.540 refer
00:58:25.460 to
00:58:26.260 what
00:58:27.680 other
00:58:27.880 people
00:58:28.080 will
00:58:28.240 call
00:58:28.420 a
00:58:28.580 fetus
00:58:29.060 or
00:58:29.280 an
00:58:29.420 embryo
00:58:29.780 I
00:58:29.960 cannot
00:58:30.240 have
00:58:30.720 this
00:58:31.580 baby
00:58:32.240 and
00:58:33.020 hold
00:58:33.440 my
00:58:33.700 existing
00:58:34.120 family
00:58:34.560 together
00:58:35.040 and
00:58:36.280 I
00:58:37.200 think
00:58:37.640 that
00:58:38.080 it's
00:58:38.920 all
00:58:39.400 about
00:58:39.960 context
00:58:41.180 and
00:58:42.060 it's
00:58:42.260 all
00:58:42.420 about
00:58:42.660 who
00:58:42.880 decides
00:58:43.500 and
00:58:44.420 you
00:58:44.980 know
00:58:45.080 how
00:58:45.240 you
00:58:45.360 do
00:58:45.460 it
00:58:45.540 I
00:58:45.620 mean
00:58:45.820 if
00:58:46.560 you
00:58:46.680 want
00:58:46.820 to
00:58:47.000 give
00:58:47.080 you
00:58:47.160 another
00:58:47.560 quick
00:58:47.900 example
00:58:48.200 may
00:58:48.620 I
00:58:49.400 have
00:58:50.200 a
00:58:50.360 friend
00:58:50.640 who
00:58:50.860 was 0.74
00:58:51.040 raped 0.97
00:58:51.400 and 0.99
00:58:52.200 she
00:58:52.640 had
00:58:52.960 the
00:58:53.200 child
00:58:53.540 and
00:58:54.020 she
00:58:54.340 that
00:58:55.120 massively
00:58:55.580 radicalized
00:58:56.500 her
00:58:56.680 into
00:58:56.940 a
00:58:57.180 pro-life
00:58:57.680 position
00:58:58.100 and she
00:58:59.180 says
00:58:59.620 it's
00:59:00.160 not
00:59:00.320 the
00:59:00.480 child's
00:59:00.780 fault
00:59:01.000 it
00:59:01.760 absolutely
00:59:02.200 isn't
00:59:02.540 it's
00:59:02.740 not
00:59:02.920 the
00:59:03.080 child's
00:59:03.420 fault
00:59:03.640 it's
00:59:04.120 nothing
00:59:04.380 to
00:59:04.580 so
00:59:04.980 even
00:59:05.680 if
00:59:05.860 this
00:59:06.080 happened
00:59:06.360 to
00:59:06.580 me
00:59:06.780 and
00:59:06.940 it
00:59:07.040 was
00:59:07.180 awful
00:59:07.560 and
00:59:07.940 all
00:59:08.480 of
00:59:08.600 that
00:59:08.840 it's
00:59:09.380 not
00:59:09.620 the
00:59:09.800 child's
00:59:10.180 fault
00:59:10.300 so
00:59:11.520 so
00:59:11.540 I
00:59:12.120 look
00:59:13.520 I
00:59:14.460 am
00:59:14.960 the
00:59:15.200 last
00:59:15.480 person
00:59:15.840 that
00:59:15.980 wants
00:59:16.140 to
00:59:16.280 tell
00:59:16.440 women 1.00
00:59:16.660 what
00:59:16.880 to
00:59:17.020 do
00:59:17.120 with
00:59:17.240 their
00:59:17.380 body
00:59:17.640 but
00:59:18.200 with
00:59:18.380 that
00:59:18.600 argument
00:59:18.980 I'm
00:59:19.200 just
00:59:19.320 being
00:59:19.560 honest
00:59:19.820 with
00:59:19.980 you
00:59:20.120 about
00:59:20.440 my
00:59:20.880 instinctive
00:59:22.140 reaction
00:59:22.580 yes
00:59:23.600 it's
00:59:23.820 important
00:59:24.220 for her
00:59:24.780 little
00:59:25.020 boy
00:59:25.300 to
00:59:25.540 have
00:59:25.780 the
00:59:25.960 relationship
00:59:26.440 with
00:59:26.720 his
00:59:26.860 dad
00:59:27.180 right
00:59:27.840 but
00:59:29.080 the
00:59:29.460 fact
00:59:29.720 that
00:59:29.920 she
00:59:30.200 is
00:59:30.460 pregnant 0.80
00:59:30.800 by
00:59:31.080 someone
00:59:31.420 else
00:59:31.800 is
00:59:32.920 not
00:59:33.300 the
00:59:33.760 fault
00:59:34.020 of
00:59:34.200 the
00:59:34.360 baby
00:59:34.620 that
00:59:34.820 she's
00:59:35.080 carrying
00:59:35.420 and
00:59:36.180 the
00:59:36.320 fact
00:59:36.520 that
00:59:36.700 relationship
00:59:37.240 with
00:59:38.060 her
00:59:38.340 former
00:59:39.200 partner
00:59:39.580 may
00:59:39.900 be
00:59:40.160 badly
00:59:40.620 affected
00:59:41.040 and
00:59:41.320 the
00:59:41.500 child
00:59:41.860 that
00:59:42.280 she
00:59:42.380 already
00:59:42.620 has
00:59:42.840 may
00:59:43.000 be
00:59:43.080 badly
00:59:43.340 it's
00:59:43.860 not
00:59:44.100 the
00:59:44.300 fault
00:59:44.520 of
00:59:44.680 the
00:59:44.800 baby
00:59:44.980 that
00:59:45.140 she's
00:59:45.360 carrying
00:59:45.660 and
00:59:45.960 yet
00:59:46.220 that
00:59:46.800 baby
00:59:47.160 is
00:59:47.460 the
00:59:47.600 one
00:59:47.800 that
00:59:48.020 is
00:59:48.180 paying
00:59:48.500 the
00:59:48.720 price
00:59:49.080 for
00:59:49.680 what
00:59:49.900 let's
00:59:50.160 be
00:59:50.320 honest
00:59:50.580 without
00:59:50.780 being
00:59:51.100 judgmental
00:59:51.680 are
00:59:51.940 her
00:59:52.160 decisions
00:59:52.680 yeah
00:59:53.840 but
00:59:54.380 the
00:59:55.220 thing
00:59:55.500 is
00:59:56.000 is
00:59:56.440 that
00:59:56.920 somebody
00:59:59.280 right
01:00:00.360 somebody
01:00:02.200 has
01:00:03.480 to
01:00:03.720 make
01:00:04.280 that
01:00:05.120 moral
01:00:05.880 decision
01:00:06.600 and
01:00:08.060 live
01:00:08.280 with
01:00:08.440 it
01:00:08.620 and
01:00:09.540 I
01:00:09.680 think
01:00:10.020 that
01:00:10.540 you know
01:00:11.860 what
01:00:12.560 I'm
01:00:12.840 saying
01:00:13.360 is
01:00:14.580 that
01:00:15.060 I
01:00:15.820 can
01:00:16.020 understand
01:00:16.760 that
01:00:18.280 you
01:00:18.720 or
01:00:19.700 and a
01:00:20.780 whole
01:00:20.940 number
01:00:21.180 of
01:00:21.340 other
01:00:21.520 people
01:00:22.060 might
01:00:23.360 see
01:00:24.020 that
01:00:25.620 that
01:00:26.960 baby
01:00:29.340 inside
01:00:30.120 her
01:00:30.460 that
01:00:31.520 does
01:00:32.620 not
01:00:33.020 even
01:00:34.520 know
01:00:34.940 that
01:00:35.160 it's
01:00:35.400 alive
01:00:35.960 as
01:00:37.040 having
01:00:37.740 a
01:00:38.600 value
01:00:39.120 that
01:00:39.940 should
01:00:40.580 disrupt
01:00:42.320 those
01:00:42.700 lives
01:00:43.180 and
01:00:44.400 that's
01:00:45.020 okay
01:00:45.660 I
01:00:46.020 understand
01:00:46.660 where
01:00:46.980 people
01:00:47.240 come
01:00:47.480 from
01:00:47.700 on
01:00:47.860 that
01:00:48.140 do
01:00:49.920 you know
01:00:50.180 as I
01:00:50.800 said
01:00:50.980 to you
01:00:51.460 I've
01:00:51.940 and
01:00:52.860 BPAS
01:00:53.700 now
01:00:54.200 actually
01:00:54.740 is
01:00:56.100 running
01:00:57.120 an
01:00:57.800 assisted
01:00:58.180 conception
01:00:58.700 service
01:00:59.280 for
01:00:59.480 women 1.00
01:00:59.680 who
01:00:59.880 can't
01:01:00.980 become
01:01:01.340 pregnant 0.80
01:01:01.880 because
01:01:02.340 it is
01:01:02.760 thoroughly
01:01:03.800 pro-choice
01:01:04.420 organisation
01:01:05.160 I do
01:01:06.520 not know
01:01:07.360 whether
01:01:08.080 I would
01:01:08.880 ever
01:01:09.420 have been
01:01:10.300 able to
01:01:11.480 face
01:01:12.580 having
01:01:13.320 an
01:01:13.760 abortion
01:01:14.140 myself
01:01:15.520 because
01:01:16.160 I went
01:01:17.520 through
01:01:17.980 a
01:01:18.620 very long
01:01:19.720 period
01:01:20.040 of time
01:01:20.700 when I
01:01:21.620 desperately
01:01:22.380 wanted
01:01:22.920 to be
01:01:23.500 pregnant 0.80
01:01:23.860 and I
01:01:24.900 desperately
01:01:25.560 wanted
01:01:26.000 to have
01:01:26.400 a baby
01:01:26.900 and I
01:01:27.720 felt
01:01:27.980 that
01:01:28.220 I
01:01:28.420 couldn't
01:01:28.800 do
01:01:29.060 that
01:01:29.540 now
01:01:30.780 even
01:01:31.800 now
01:01:32.340 you know
01:01:33.140 I
01:01:33.420 have
01:01:33.940 what
01:01:34.760 great
01:01:36.060 contemporary
01:01:36.600 philosopher
01:01:37.100 Ronald
01:01:37.580 Dawkins
01:01:38.380 describes
01:01:40.680 as being
01:01:41.600 a sense
01:01:42.020 of cosmic
01:01:42.880 awe
01:01:43.480 when I
01:01:44.180 look at
01:01:44.720 an embryo
01:01:45.500 it is
01:01:46.040 awesome
01:01:47.100 literally
01:01:48.300 and to
01:01:49.340 think of
01:01:49.820 ending
01:01:50.320 that
01:01:50.820 and cutting
01:01:51.440 it off
01:01:51.980 seems
01:01:52.880 incredibly
01:01:54.280 profound
01:01:55.000 but you
01:01:56.740 know
01:01:57.120 I'm not
01:01:59.120 going to
01:01:59.380 live with
01:01:59.700 the
01:01:59.840 consequences
01:02:00.420 of that
01:02:02.200 she is
01:02:04.220 and that's
01:02:05.240 why I
01:02:05.480 think we
01:02:05.760 all look
01:02:06.460 at these
01:02:06.860 things
01:02:07.320 differently
01:02:07.980 and that's
01:02:09.960 why you
01:02:10.620 know the
01:02:10.880 case that
01:02:11.620 I'm really
01:02:12.140 trying to
01:02:12.680 make when
01:02:13.140 I'm
01:02:13.520 writing
01:02:14.120 is these
01:02:15.380 things are
01:02:15.860 nuanced
01:02:16.460 and they're
01:02:17.660 difficult
01:02:18.000 and there
01:02:18.540 are arguments
01:02:19.120 that you
01:02:19.860 can put
01:02:20.360 for and
01:02:20.900 against
01:02:21.240 and we
01:02:21.580 can discuss
01:02:22.200 it
01:02:22.460 philosophically
01:02:23.540 but
01:02:25.220 somebody's
01:02:26.560 making a
01:02:26.960 decision
01:02:27.340 and I
01:02:28.940 have seen
01:02:29.540 women in 0.62
01:02:30.180 Bpass
01:02:30.740 clinics
01:02:31.100 who've
01:02:32.200 said I
01:02:33.180 never
01:02:33.820 thought I
01:02:34.560 would bring
01:02:36.100 myself to
01:02:37.080 have an
01:02:37.980 abortion
01:02:38.400 I've had
01:02:40.080 women who 0.99
01:02:40.560 have protested
01:02:41.560 outside abortion
01:02:42.600 clinics
01:02:42.980 who when
01:02:44.740 they have
01:02:45.180 faced that
01:02:45.660 line on
01:02:46.080 the pregnancy
01:02:46.520 test
01:02:47.160 have
01:02:48.280 suddenly
01:02:49.900 realised
01:02:50.560 that this
01:02:52.180 was not
01:02:52.540 going to
01:02:52.760 work for
01:02:53.140 them
01:02:53.400 at the
01:02:54.280 same
01:02:54.500 time
01:02:55.020 I've
01:02:55.660 had
01:02:55.880 women 1.00
01:02:56.200 who
01:02:56.880 have
01:02:58.000 been
01:02:58.300 absolutely
01:02:59.240 100%
01:03:01.000 pro-choice
01:03:01.880 100%
01:03:03.240 they've
01:03:03.520 been on
01:03:03.860 the marches
01:03:04.760 they bought
01:03:05.160 the t-shirt
01:03:05.900 they've got
01:03:06.280 the sticker
01:03:06.880 and yet
01:03:08.160 when they
01:03:08.820 become
01:03:09.140 pregnant 0.80
01:03:09.520 they found
01:03:10.500 that
01:03:11.060 they felt
01:03:12.440 an
01:03:12.760 overwhelming
01:03:13.820 sense
01:03:15.360 of
01:03:16.340 nurturing
01:03:17.640 for
01:03:18.900 that
01:03:19.460 child
01:03:19.960 and
01:03:21.120 and
01:03:21.140 I
01:03:21.560 think
01:03:21.700 in
01:03:21.900 these
01:03:22.380 circumstances
01:03:23.540 when
01:03:24.600 things
01:03:25.060 are
01:03:25.280 this
01:03:25.920 kind
01:03:26.460 of
01:03:27.060 personal
01:03:28.320 the
01:03:29.460 best
01:03:30.260 thing
01:03:30.600 that
01:03:30.820 we
01:03:30.960 can
01:03:31.200 do
01:03:31.760 is
01:03:32.460 to
01:03:32.920 accept
01:03:33.820 that
01:03:34.400 there's
01:03:35.740 lots of
01:03:36.220 philosophy
01:03:36.700 going on
01:03:37.400 and
01:03:38.860 you know
01:03:40.340 if
01:03:41.040 people
01:03:41.720 looking at
01:03:42.800 the podcast
01:03:43.180 want to
01:03:44.460 you know
01:03:45.720 read a copy
01:03:47.000 of the book
01:03:47.340 there's a lot
01:03:48.300 of it in
01:03:48.700 there
01:03:48.980 there's a
01:03:49.640 woman called 0.99
01:03:50.060 Judith
01:03:50.360 Jarvis
01:03:50.980 Thompson
01:03:51.340 we talk
01:03:51.960 about
01:03:52.460 you know
01:03:53.180 kind of
01:03:54.400 comparable
01:03:55.020 situations
01:03:55.880 she
01:03:56.640 did this
01:03:57.820 thing
01:03:58.000 that
01:03:58.260 philosophers
01:03:58.720 do
01:03:59.260 of
01:03:59.680 constructing
01:04:00.600 this
01:04:00.880 mind
01:04:01.160 experiment
01:04:01.780 of a
01:04:02.800 violinist
01:04:04.300 who
01:04:04.840 wakes up
01:04:06.200 and
01:04:06.820 somebody's
01:04:07.700 attached
01:04:08.540 him
01:04:09.080 to
01:04:09.720 another
01:04:10.900 person
01:04:11.580 like with
01:04:12.400 an
01:04:12.540 artificial
01:04:12.960 umbilical
01:04:13.600 cord
01:04:13.980 and he's
01:04:14.240 basically
01:04:14.600 saying
01:04:15.100 look you
01:04:15.420 just have
01:04:15.820 to
01:04:16.080 put up
01:04:17.020 with
01:04:17.160 them
01:04:17.440 for
01:04:17.900 oh it's
01:04:19.760 a violinist
01:04:20.440 who's been
01:04:20.760 attached to
01:04:21.300 somebody
01:04:21.660 who
01:04:22.440 you just
01:04:23.460 have to
01:04:24.080 you know
01:04:24.620 put up
01:04:25.160 with
01:04:25.340 them
01:04:25.540 for
01:04:25.800 nine
01:04:26.240 months
01:04:26.700 but
01:04:27.160 you
01:04:27.420 really
01:04:27.740 need
01:04:27.960 to
01:04:28.100 do
01:04:28.260 this
01:04:28.520 because
01:04:28.800 they're
01:04:29.040 a
01:04:29.160 world
01:04:29.320 famous
01:04:29.660 violinist
01:04:30.280 and
01:04:30.460 I'll 0.99
01:04:30.680 die 0.97
01:04:31.020 if 1.00
01:04:31.240 you
01:04:31.360 don't
01:04:31.560 put up
01:04:31.860 with
01:04:31.980 this
01:04:32.180 inconvenience
01:04:33.260 and of
01:04:34.280 course
01:04:34.520 you would
01:04:35.040 never
01:04:35.360 let it
01:04:35.700 happen
01:04:36.040 um
01:04:37.640 and she
01:04:38.020 says
01:04:38.200 and that's
01:04:38.540 a born
01:04:38.960 person
01:04:39.540 who's
01:04:40.040 a
01:04:40.160 famous
01:04:40.460 violinist
01:04:41.220 it's
01:04:41.480 not
01:04:41.660 even
01:04:42.020 you can't
01:04:42.800 even
01:04:42.960 make
01:04:43.160 the
01:04:43.320 argument
01:04:43.680 that
01:04:44.040 it
01:04:44.220 has
01:04:44.720 no
01:04:45.040 sense
01:04:45.420 of
01:04:45.540 itself
01:04:45.920 yet
01:04:46.300 um
01:04:47.640 so you
01:04:48.360 can
01:04:48.500 do
01:04:48.700 all
01:04:48.900 the
01:04:49.020 philosophy
01:04:49.480 you
01:04:50.560 can
01:04:51.020 do
01:04:51.400 all
01:04:51.580 of
01:04:51.660 the
01:04:51.800 science
01:04:52.280 but
01:04:53.460 at
01:04:53.580 the
01:04:53.760 end
01:04:54.040 of
01:04:54.200 the
01:04:54.300 day
01:04:54.680 it's
01:04:56.480 down
01:04:56.680 to
01:04:56.840 a
01:04:56.960 person
01:04:57.280 to
01:04:57.920 make
01:04:58.180 a
01:04:58.300 decision
01:04:58.640 about
01:04:58.940 something
01:04:59.300 that's
01:04:59.660 going
01:04:59.860 on
01:05:00.060 in
01:05:00.200 their
01:05:00.360 life
01:05:00.780 and
01:05:01.940 I
01:05:02.420 think
01:05:02.620 we
01:05:03.060 have
01:05:03.300 to
01:05:03.420 have
01:05:03.600 a
01:05:03.700 load
01:05:03.840 of
01:05:03.940 these
01:05:04.140 arguments
01:05:04.560 but
01:05:05.080 ultimately
01:05:05.620 they
01:05:06.040 have
01:05:06.300 to
01:05:06.460 make
01:05:06.980 the
01:05:07.120 decision
01:05:07.540 do
01:05:08.120 you
01:05:08.200 have
01:05:08.340 sympathy
01:05:08.720 for
01:05:08.940 the
01:05:09.060 pro-life
01:05:09.640 side
01:05:10.480 of the
01:05:10.660 argument
01:05:10.940 and
01:05:11.140 pro-life
01:05:11.600 people
01:05:11.960 because
01:05:12.380 frequently
01:05:13.520 in this
01:05:13.940 country
01:05:14.240 they're
01:05:14.700 mischaracterized
01:05:16.220 they're
01:05:16.940 seen as
01:05:17.440 being
01:05:17.640 bigoted 0.73
01:05:18.280 hating 1.00
01:05:19.340 women 1.00
01:05:19.840 we all
01:05:20.940 know
01:05:21.140 the
01:05:21.480 slurs 0.98
01:05:22.460 that get
01:05:22.740 thrown
01:05:23.000 at
01:05:23.180 them
01:05:23.380 I
01:05:23.960 yeah
01:05:24.380 I
01:05:24.880 do
01:05:25.680 you
01:05:25.740 know
01:05:25.860 what
01:05:26.120 I
01:05:27.080 you
01:05:28.280 know
01:05:28.760 I
01:05:29.160 think
01:05:29.520 at
01:05:30.720 the
01:05:30.900 moment
01:05:31.400 there
01:05:32.780 is
01:05:33.180 a
01:05:33.600 profound
01:05:34.440 intolerance
01:05:36.380 of
01:05:37.380 the
01:05:37.560 questioning
01:05:38.100 of
01:05:39.780 the
01:05:40.700 moral
01:05:45.620 issues
01:05:46.380 and the
01:05:46.760 legal
01:05:46.980 issues
01:05:47.700 around
01:05:48.400 abortion
01:05:49.640 and
01:05:50.520 I
01:05:50.940 think
01:05:51.320 that
01:05:51.600 one
01:05:51.840 of
01:05:51.960 the
01:05:52.100 things
01:05:52.440 that
01:05:52.740 troubles
01:05:53.280 me
01:05:53.840 is
01:05:54.960 that
01:05:55.540 abortion
01:05:56.860 is
01:05:57.880 now
01:05:59.560 regarded
01:06:00.200 as a
01:06:00.940 medical
01:06:01.680 procedure
01:06:02.520 that
01:06:02.960 you
01:06:03.160 just
01:06:03.460 kind
01:06:03.820 of
01:06:03.960 can't
01:06:04.500 take
01:06:04.760 anything
01:06:05.240 other
01:06:05.720 than
01:06:07.100 a
01:06:08.720 kind
01:06:08.980 of
01:06:09.180 almost
01:06:09.680 public
01:06:10.980 health
01:06:11.440 benefit
01:06:12.000 view
01:06:12.720 on
01:06:13.140 and I
01:06:14.160 think
01:06:14.420 it does
01:06:14.840 miss out
01:06:15.300 the fact
01:06:15.740 that
01:06:16.160 there are
01:06:16.720 a lot
01:06:17.040 of
01:06:17.220 moral
01:06:17.520 issues
01:06:18.520 that are
01:06:19.500 around
01:06:19.920 and that
01:06:20.340 we should
01:06:20.680 constantly
01:06:21.260 be talking
01:06:21.880 about
01:06:22.380 and
01:06:23.000 debating
01:06:23.860 and I
01:06:25.180 made the
01:06:25.700 point
01:06:26.020 earlier
01:06:26.580 I know
01:06:26.980 when I
01:06:27.260 was talking
01:06:27.660 to you
01:06:28.220 that
01:06:28.560 I think
01:06:29.600 that
01:06:30.080 we have
01:06:30.960 to regard
01:06:31.600 it as
01:06:32.480 a method
01:06:33.320 of birth
01:06:33.780 control
01:06:34.400 and I
01:06:35.240 think
01:06:35.500 in a
01:06:35.820 society
01:06:36.520 that
01:06:37.580 wants
01:06:38.140 to
01:06:38.880 allow
01:06:40.620 people
01:06:41.820 full
01:06:42.820 control
01:06:43.400 over
01:06:44.000 who they
01:06:45.600 have
01:06:46.280 a child
01:06:47.720 with
01:06:48.320 and
01:06:49.100 when they
01:06:50.200 have
01:06:50.640 a baby
01:06:51.420 abortion 0.90
01:06:53.460 needs
01:06:54.200 to be
01:06:54.580 seen
01:06:54.920 as a
01:06:55.220 method
01:06:55.440 of
01:06:55.620 contraception
01:06:56.520 but I
01:06:57.260 don't
01:06:57.460 think
01:06:57.660 we
01:06:57.820 should
01:06:58.000 ever
01:06:58.360 forget
01:06:58.940 the
01:06:59.740 points
01:07:00.040 that
01:07:00.260 you're
01:07:00.720 raising
01:07:01.360 about
01:07:01.840 that
01:07:02.140 there
01:07:02.340 is
01:07:02.540 something
01:07:03.040 that
01:07:03.980 seems
01:07:04.320 to be
01:07:04.760 fundamentally
01:07:05.540 morally
01:07:06.480 different
01:07:07.080 about
01:07:08.380 ending
01:07:09.000 a life
01:07:10.360 to not
01:07:11.400 starting
01:07:12.100 a life
01:07:13.400 and I
01:07:14.320 think
01:07:14.560 we have
01:07:15.100 to keep
01:07:15.520 that
01:07:15.960 question
01:07:16.640 debated
01:07:17.940 and thought
01:07:18.680 about
01:07:19.100 because I
01:07:19.900 actually
01:07:20.200 you know
01:07:20.660 I think
01:07:21.260 women 1.00
01:07:21.500 think
01:07:21.800 about
01:07:22.060 it
01:07:22.320 you know
01:07:23.800 I think
01:07:24.360 and women
01:07:25.420 will say
01:07:26.160 you know
01:07:27.420 I'll have
01:07:27.900 an abortion
01:07:28.240 if I can
01:07:28.840 have it
01:07:29.660 using that
01:07:30.180 pill
01:07:30.480 and
01:07:30.960 within
01:07:31.920 the first
01:07:33.020 couple of
01:07:33.720 months
01:07:34.100 but I
01:07:34.560 wouldn't
01:07:34.760 have an
01:07:35.040 abortion
01:07:35.300 after that
01:07:35.980 so women 0.99
01:07:36.880 are thinking
01:07:37.320 about it
01:07:37.920 we don't
01:07:38.700 we don't
01:07:39.360 lose
01:07:39.940 anything
01:07:40.360 by
01:07:41.720 accepting
01:07:42.680 that
01:07:43.360 and
01:07:44.640 the
01:07:45.200 demonization
01:07:46.460 of
01:07:48.200 people
01:07:49.200 who
01:07:49.760 seek
01:07:50.360 to
01:07:50.540 question
01:07:50.960 it
01:07:51.260 is
01:07:51.720 utterly
01:07:52.840 wrong
01:07:53.740 and one
01:07:54.780 of the
01:07:55.020 things
01:07:55.260 that I
01:07:55.580 really
01:07:56.100 have
01:07:56.360 tried
01:07:56.800 to
01:07:57.120 do
01:07:57.620 when I
01:07:58.780 was
01:07:59.440 writing
01:08:00.160 this
01:08:00.660 book
01:08:01.180 was to
01:08:02.380 think
01:08:02.860 about
01:08:03.180 the
01:08:03.420 discussions
01:08:03.940 that I've
01:08:05.020 had
01:08:05.420 with
01:08:06.420 people
01:08:06.840 who
01:08:07.420 are
01:08:08.100 against
01:08:08.820 abortion
01:08:09.760 in
01:08:10.000 principle
01:08:10.460 and try
01:08:11.660 and think
01:08:11.940 about how
01:08:12.440 I deal
01:08:13.000 with those
01:08:13.580 arguments
01:08:14.060 and
01:08:14.780 yeah
01:08:16.760 that's a
01:08:18.580 good
01:08:18.720 point
01:08:19.220 because
01:08:21.440 I think
01:08:22.800 we need
01:08:24.440 to do
01:08:25.400 that on
01:08:25.720 a lot
01:08:25.900 of other
01:08:26.180 things
01:08:26.480 as well
01:08:26.860 actually
01:08:27.260 it would
01:08:27.700 have been
01:08:27.880 very helpful
01:08:28.400 if we
01:08:28.700 could have
01:08:28.940 had some
01:08:29.360 of those
01:08:29.620 discussions
01:08:30.060 about
01:08:30.440 Covid
01:08:30.820 for example
01:08:32.000 rather than
01:08:33.860 your pro
01:08:34.840 vax
01:08:35.180 your anti
01:08:35.660 vax
01:08:36.240 your pro
01:08:37.980 choice
01:08:38.400 your anti
01:08:38.840 choice
01:08:39.360 we need
01:08:40.660 more of a
01:08:41.340 space
01:08:41.900 where we
01:08:42.340 can consider
01:08:43.120 and have
01:08:43.520 grown up
01:08:44.220 intelligent
01:08:44.880 discussions
01:08:45.440 I think
01:08:46.140 well for
01:08:46.920 that reason
01:08:47.360 it's been a
01:08:47.760 pleasure having
01:08:48.260 you on the
01:08:48.680 show and
01:08:49.040 before we
01:08:51.220 ask our
01:08:52.920 questions for
01:08:53.520 our supporters
01:08:54.160 for our local
01:08:54.720 supporters that
01:08:55.700 they've already
01:08:56.140 asked and
01:08:57.500 we wrap up
01:08:58.080 the interview
01:08:58.460 we've always
01:08:59.660 got one
01:09:00.420 final question
01:09:01.040 for you
01:09:01.380 which is
01:09:01.680 what's the
01:09:02.100 one thing
01:09:02.420 we're not
01:09:02.780 talking about
01:09:03.480 as a society
01:09:04.220 that you
01:09:04.580 think we
01:09:04.900 should be
01:09:05.260 I think
01:09:06.840 what we're
01:09:07.140 not talking
01:09:07.660 about is
01:09:08.840 the M
01:09:10.040 word
01:09:10.600 the moral
01:09:11.720 word
01:09:12.640 whether
01:09:13.400 something
01:09:13.900 is right
01:09:14.800 or whether
01:09:15.960 it's wrong
01:09:16.960 and I
01:09:17.980 think
01:09:18.480 today
01:09:19.780 being
01:09:20.900 non-judgmental
01:09:22.820 is somehow
01:09:24.680 valorised
01:09:26.080 as a
01:09:28.520 you know
01:09:30.740 as a value
01:09:31.480 that we
01:09:32.400 should all
01:09:32.820 accord with
01:09:33.700 and
01:09:34.800 it seemed
01:09:36.520 to be a
01:09:37.300 very bad
01:09:37.960 thing indeed
01:09:38.960 ironically
01:09:40.480 to make
01:09:41.300 judgements
01:09:42.020 about
01:09:42.840 things
01:09:43.480 and I
01:09:44.860 think we
01:09:45.760 really need
01:09:47.280 to find
01:09:49.280 a way
01:09:50.380 of
01:09:51.340 framing
01:09:53.420 what we
01:09:54.640 think is
01:09:55.680 right
01:09:56.280 and what we
01:09:57.420 think is
01:09:58.040 wrong
01:09:58.600 without the
01:10:00.300 reference to
01:10:01.260 the perhaps
01:10:02.480 the old
01:10:02.860 Christian ideals
01:10:03.860 that used
01:10:05.160 to hold
01:10:05.620 things
01:10:06.020 together
01:10:06.520 and
01:10:08.500 I say
01:10:09.780 that's one
01:10:10.440 of the
01:10:10.640 things that
01:10:11.080 I really
01:10:11.420 want to
01:10:11.800 tackle
01:10:12.040 and loads
01:10:12.400 of people
01:10:12.700 said to
01:10:13.120 me
01:10:13.260 don't
01:10:14.060 call it
01:10:14.720 the moral
01:10:15.640 case
01:10:16.280 call it
01:10:17.300 ethics
01:10:18.040 call it
01:10:18.900 something
01:10:19.800 else
01:10:20.320 and I
01:10:21.140 think we
01:10:21.560 just have
01:10:21.980 to face
01:10:22.460 up to
01:10:22.780 the fact
01:10:23.160 that as
01:10:24.460 people we
01:10:25.220 need a
01:10:25.620 moral code
01:10:26.660 and my
01:10:27.760 moral code
01:10:29.440 here is
01:10:30.300 not a
01:10:30.640 judgmental
01:10:31.120 one I'm
01:10:31.600 saying it's
01:10:32.440 absolutely
01:10:33.000 right that
01:10:35.400 people should
01:10:36.080 be able to
01:10:36.780 decide on
01:10:39.260 matters of
01:10:40.240 conscience for
01:10:40.920 themselves and
01:10:42.140 on matters of
01:10:42.780 their own bodily
01:10:43.380 integrity for
01:10:44.380 themselves that's
01:10:45.140 what autonomy is
01:10:45.840 about and
01:10:46.640 that's what I
01:10:47.100 stand for
01:10:47.620 that is a
01:10:48.600 fantastic place
01:10:49.820 to end the
01:10:50.180 interview and
01:10:50.940 if people want
01:10:51.400 to find you
01:10:51.820 online where
01:10:52.380 is the best
01:10:52.780 place to do
01:10:53.380 that other
01:10:53.740 than buying
01:10:54.160 the moral
01:10:54.480 case for
01:10:54.860 abortion if
01:10:55.340 they want to
01:10:56.920 do that look
01:10:57.840 me up on
01:10:58.340 Twitter I
01:10:59.160 tweet in my
01:11:00.080 own name
01:11:00.740 that's
01:11:02.900 probably the
01:11:03.260 best place
01:11:03.720 for them to
01:11:04.200 find me
01:11:04.760 why is it
01:11:07.460 that a woman 0.98
01:11:08.200 is allowed to
01:11:08.800 forego the
01:11:09.300 responsibilities of
01:11:10.260 being a mother
01:11:10.740 either by
01:11:11.680 adopting or
01:11:12.340 aborting but a
01:11:13.480 man cannot do
01:11:14.540 the same