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The battle over birth: should we stop having children?

Concerns about rising population numbers have been around for centuries. But a growing area of debate now centres on what view prospective parents might or should take about bringing children into the world. Blythe Pepino, made the headlines in the UK by setting up the BirthStrike protest as ‘a decision not to bear children due to the severity of the ecological crisis’. But controlling reproduction has never solved social problems and denies women’s bodily autonomy. An engaging panel filmed at the Battle of Ideas festival in November 2019, debate what is at stake. The speakers are: Alistair Currie, head of campaigns and communications, Population Matters; campaigner, PETA UK, Cruelty Free International and Free Tibet Ann Furedi, chief executive, BPAS; author, The Moral Case for Abortion Ashley Frawley, senior lecturer in sociology and social policy, Swansea University; author, Significant Emotions and Semiotics of Happiness Blythe Pepino, songwriter, Mesadorm; singer; founder, BirthStrike The chair is Ellie Lee, professor of family and parenting research, University of Kent, Canterbury; director, Centre for Parenting Culture Studies