How to Plot an Abortion

Clair Wills

Following the US Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, and other challenges to reproductive rights, Clair Wills considers the stories we tell about abortion – in fiction, film, court rulings and clinics. Broadcast live from Conway Hall in London, this was the second of the LRB's 2023 Winter Lecture series.

Read the lecture here, and listen to Clair discuss the lecture in our podcast here

Recorded at Conway Hall on 24 February, 2023.   

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