Abortion: decriminalise, destigmatise, demedicalise
Doctors for Choice UK and Abortion Talk conference at The Fetal Medicine Research Institute, King's College Hospital, Denmark Hill
Date and time
Location
Fetal Medicine Research Institute
16-20 Windsor Walk London SE5 8BB United KingdomRefund Policy
Agenda
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Registration
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Introductions and Decriminalisation in the UK (excluding NI) update
Sally Sheldon (University of Bristol)
Hayley Webb (DfC UK)
Laura Russell (Abortion Talk)
10:00 AM - 11:15 AM
Reproductive rights and other movements - Chaired by Tom Merewether (DfC)
Ammaarah (Ad'iyah Muslim Abortion Collective)
Edem Ntumy (Reproductive Justice Initiative)
Blackbird (Sisters Uncut)
11:15 AM - 11:30 AM
Tea and coffee break
11:30 AM - 12:45 PM
Should abortion care be de-medicalised? - Chaired by Lisa Hallgarten (Brook)
Mara Clarke (S.A.F.E. abortion fund)
Lucía Berro Pizzarossa (London School of Economics)
Felicia Yeung (Reproductive Justice Initiative)
12:45 PM - 1:30 PM
Lunch
1:30 PM - 2:15 PM
Healthcare professionals and stigmatising language
Jayne Kavanagh (UCL)
Jane Fisher (Antenatal Results and Choices)
2:15 PM - 3:30 PM
Abortion stigma: from research to practice - Chaired by Samuel Yosef (KCL)
Lesley Hoggart (Open University, England)
Fiona Bloomer (Ulster University)
Carrie Purcell (Open University, Scotland)
3:30 PM - 3:45 PM
Tea and coffee break
3:45 PM - 5:00 PM
'What's in an abortion?' 'zine making workshop
Joe Strong (London School of Economics)
Rishita Nandagiri (King's College London)
5:00 PM - 5:10 PM
Closing remarks
Hayley Webb (DfC UK)
Laura Russell (Abortion Talk)
5:10 PM - 7:00 PM
Drinks reception
About this event
- 7 hours 30 minutes
Doctors for Choice UK and Abortion Talk present their first joint annual conference - tickets now reduced to £30 for waged non-members, and only £10 for DfC members, abortion talk volunteers, and students / low or unwaged.
Like the feminist activist group Women Help Women, our conference focuses the fight for reproductive rights into a '3D' model: the decriminalisation, demedicalisation, and detisgmatisation of abortion.
The day will be split into two halves, each dealing with a set of distinctive themes. To start, the first half of the day will ask us to take a step back and think critically about the scope of our work as reproductive rights activists. Sessions will include an update on the flourishing campaign for decriminialisation, which seeks to extend Northern Ireland's landmark success in decrimininalising abortion in 2019 to the rest of the UK; the relationship between reproductive rights and other progressive activist movements; and thinking the role of medicalisation in a pro-choice future.
The afternoon sessions will then turn to focus on destigmatisation, the persistence of abortion-related stigma counting among the greatest barriers to the realisation of reproductive justice. Through interactive sessions examining the nature of abortion stigma, the factors that reinforce it, and how to translate our ideas from theory into practice, destigmatisation will be given its rightful place as an activity that must inform the entirety of our work.
The day will close with a drinks reception on-site.
Tea and coffee, lunch, and drinks reception included with conference ticket.
Tickets
Waged (not DfC or AT member)
0£30.00+£3.22 FeeUnwaged / Student
0£10.00+£1.55 FeeDoctors For Choice UK member
0£10.00+£1.55 FeeAbortion Talk volunteers
0£10.00+£1.55 Fee