Breaking siloes: abortion beyond the clinic

Breaking siloes: abortion beyond the clinic

Doctors for Choice UK and Abortion Talk conference at The Fetal Medicine Research Institute, King's College Hospital, Denmark Hill

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Date and time

Fri, 20 Jun 2025 09:30 - 17:00 BST

Location

Fetal Medicine Research Institute

16-20 Windsor Walk London SE5 8BB United Kingdom

Refund Policy

Refunds up to 7 days before event

Agenda

9:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Registration

10:00 AM - 10:05 AM

Welcome

Introductions from the conference organisers and a recap of the agenda for the day

10:05 AM - 11:25 AM

Bodily autonomy and self-determination - Chaired by Tee Merewether (DFCUK)

Marin Scarlett (The Scarlett Letters)

Kei Yoshida (Centre for Reproductive Rights)

Justin Hancock (sex and relationships educator)

Too often the reproductive rights movement pursues a 'single issue' politics, in which abortion rights are isolated from other political fronts - including, perhaps most damagingly, from other fights...

11:25 AM - 11:50 AM

Tea and coffee break

11:50 AM - 1:10 PM

Abortion accompaniment - Chaired by Joe Strong (QMUL)

Lucía Berro Pizzarossa (University of Birmingham)

Rishita Nandagiri (Kings College London)

Naomi Connor (Alliance for Choice)

Zachi Brewster (Abortion Doula)

For this panel, we do a deep dive into abortion accompaniment - all those aspects of abortion care and support that occur outside of legally enshrined, formal health systems - as it is practised by a...

1:10 PM - 2:00 PM

Lunch

2:00 PM - 3:20 PM

Abortion stigma: an intersectional view - Chaired by Lesley Hoggart (The OU)

Jakki Hanlon (Disability activist)

Annabel Sowemimo (Reproductive Justice Initiative)

John Reynolds Wright (Abortion care provider)

Ayomide Oluseye (The OU)

In this panel we aim to move from talking about the importance of taking intersectionality into account in tackling abortion stigma, to considering how we might do this. How might we put intersection...

3:20 PM - 3:45 PM

Tea and coffee break

3:45 PM - 4:45 PM

Interactive stigma busting

Perk up at the end of the day with this lively session. Facilitated by Rebecca Blaylock of BPAS and LSHTM, participants will be invited to address abortion stigma through the arts, and help with the ...

4:45 PM - 5:00 PM

Closing remarks

5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Informal social

Please feel free to join us for drinks and to catch up after the conference. We'll be at The Phoenix pub next to Denmark Hill station

About this event

  • Event lasts 7 hours 30 minutes

The joint Abortion Talk and Doctors for Choice conference returns for its second year!

This time, we aim to break abortion siloes by centering our focus on abortion outside the clinic, locating abortion within broader feminist movements for autonomy, self-determination, and justice.

Expect panels on the solidarity between diverse, ongoing struggles for bodily autonomy (including the movements for sex workers' rights and trans rights); the grassroots feminist activism of 'abortion accompaniement'; and challenging stigma from an intersectional perspective.

Lunch and refreshments included in the price of the ticket. All income raised from the conference will go to Abortion Talk to help with its mission of destigmatising abortion, one conversation at a time. If you are able, please consider making a donation when buying your ticket.

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