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Podcast: Double Jeopardy - UK Law and Politics
Episode: When UK Law and Politics Collide: Abortion, Assisted Dying, and Bombing Iran
Description: How should members of Parliament decide matters of life and death? In the midst of passionate public debate, Parliament has begun to rewrite the legal boundaries around abortion and assisted dying, but what does that mean for the future of UK law? And has the United States broken international law by bombing Iran?
Ken Macdonald KC and Tim Owen KC explore the shifting lines of morality, medicine, legality and war in some of Britain’s most divisive debates. They examine the legal, ethical, and political fallout of recent reforms, including the decriminalisation of abortion and the...