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Tanya Gold

Miller, Hunt and the Irrelevance of Viability to the Abortion Debate

Craig Purshouse | Posted 07.12.2012 | UK Politics
Read More: Medical Ethics, Abortion, Laurie Penny, Maria Miller, Jeremy Hunt, David Cameron, Abortion Rights, Sarah Ditum, Tanya Gold, UK Politics News
Craig Purshouse

Debating the science of when a foetus is viable rather than the relevance of viability itself implicitly accepts that a late-stage foetus's claim on existence outweighs the mother's right to bodily autonomy.

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Rape Jokes in Comedy: It's about the Comic and the Context

Taylor Glenn | Posted 19.10.2012 | UK Comedy
Read More: Rape Jokes, Psychotherapy, Reverse Psycomedy, Taylor Glenn, Female Comics, The Guardian, Stand Up Comedy, Sexual Assault, Tanya Gold, Edinburgh Fringe, Domestic Violence, UK Comedy, UK Media, UK Comedy News
Taylor Glenn

Rape and violence against women could, with care, become one of those issues we take over as comics and turn the message around - perhaps in the same way that non-white comedians have had to tackle racism over decades, or gay comics the topic of homophobia.

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