Sep 22, 2026 · 1 hr 9 min · 9 segments
Hey BSTies! On the show this week – anti-abortion activist Dr Joanna Howe and her husband James have come under fire after he said that he doesn’t “do consent”. Then, the girls unpack Lena Dunham’s…
Justine Landis-HanleyGuest
Hannah FergusonHostis coming after anti-abortion activist Joanna Howe and her husband after he said he doesn't do consent.
So this is a story that has really dominated social media in Australia over the last week and some of the mainstream media and news headlines.
That's like, I don't want to give airtime to that story, but it has just become bigger and bigger.
It's definitely a story that you hesitate to almost approach because you don't know whether you want to be engaging in it at all.
But we also wanted to cover it because it really does capture, I think, an ideological battle that we are seeing at the moment.
So this story centers around Dr. Joanna Howe and her husband, James Howe.
She's a law professor at the University of Adelaide, and she's a very prominent and vocal anti-abortion activist in Australia.
And I think it's important to note that she has previously come after Hannah.
You also may remember we spoke about her, maybe it was a few weeks ago, months ago, I can't quite remember the timeline, but she had a campaign where she claimed that there were photos of fetuses, but they were actually sugar gliders.
Yeah, the Guardian debunked that these were actually photos of sugar gliders.
So Joanna's husband, James Howe, he also has a social media following of his own.
is coming after anti-abortion activist Joanna Howe and her husband after he said he doesn't do consent.
So this is a story that has really dominated social media in Australia over the last week and some of the mainstream media and news headlines.
That's like, I don't want to give airtime to that story, but it has just become bigger and bigger.
It's definitely a story that you hesitate to almost approach because you don't know whether you want to be engaging in it at all.
But we also wanted to cover it because it really does capture, I think, an ideological battle that we are seeing at the moment.
So this story centers around Dr. Joanna Howe and her husband, James Howe.
She's a law professor at the University of Adelaide, and she's a very prominent and vocal anti-abortion activist in Australia.
And I think it's important to note that she has previously come after Hannah.
You also may remember we spoke about her, maybe it was a few weeks ago, months ago, I can't quite remember the timeline, but she had a campaign where she claimed that there were photos of fetuses, but they were actually sugar gliders.
Yeah, the Guardian debunked that these were actually photos of sugar gliders.
So Joanna's husband, James Howe, he also has a social media following of his own.
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