A British woman is jailed for abortion - does the law need to change?

A British woman is jailed for abortion - does...

Up next

Best of 2025: INVESTIGATION: The 9/11 suspect - part 2

In the week between Christmas and New Year, we’re listening back to some of our favourite episodes of 2025, this episode was first published in September.On September 21, 2001, Omar al-Bayoumi was arrested in Birmingham on suspicion of the preparation, instigation or commission o ...  Show more

Best of 2025: INVESTIGATION: The 9/11 suspect - part 1

In the week between Christmas and New Year, we’re listening back to some of our favourite episodes of 2025, this episode was first published in September.Was there another man involved in plotting the 9/11 terrorist attacks that killed thousands in 2001? And why did British polic ...  Show more

Recommended Episodes

The Effort to Punish Women for Having Abortions
The Daily

Even as the anti-abortion movement celebrates victories at the Supreme Court and in many states across the country, there is debate about where to go next.

A hard-edge faction is pursuing “abortion abolition,” a move to criminalize abortion from conception, targeting not ...

  Show more

An Abortion Rights Champion of the 1970s on Life Before and After Roe
The Daily

A little over 50 years ago, Nancy Stearns, a young lawyer, was presenting a case in New York with a bold legal assertion: that the right to abortion was fundamental to equal rights for women.

She never got to conclude her argument — first New York changed the law, then c ...

  Show more

Abortion Goes to the Supreme Court (Again)
The Daily

In overturning Roe v. Wade last year, the Supreme Court’s message was that it was done with the issue of abortion. Now, dueling rulings on abortion pills will send the issue back to the highest court in the country.

Adam Liptak, who covers the Supreme Court for The Times ...

  Show more

Ending Roe Was Supposed to Reduce Abortions. It Didn’t.
The Daily

From the moment that Roe v. Wade was overturned, the question was just how much the change would reduce abortions across the United States. Now, more than a year later, the numbers are in.

Margot Sanger-Katz, who writes about health care for The Upshot, explains why the ...

  Show more