The Women's Podcast

The Women's Podcast


Ep 346: Abortion, Northern Ireland, Amanda Palmer & more

October 31, 2019

In what was a momentous week for Northern Ireland, The Women’s Podcast travelled to Belfast for our first podcast recording in that beautiful city.

It was the week abortion was decriminalised in the North after a long grassroots struggle by feminist activists. So what happens next?

Panellists including Alliance for Choice activist Danielle Roberts, performer Kellie Turtle and Alliance party Assembly member Paula Bradshaw discussed the conversation that will happen in the North over the five month consultation period before abortion services are introduced next March.

And we were joined in the Belfast Mac by our special guest Amanda Palmer, who told our audience about her own experiences of abortion and sang the song you didn’t hear on The Late Late Show – Voicemail for Jill.