Tory MP Caroline Nokes said that check-up cancellations and women s fears of attending GP clinics in the pandemic could mean up to 600,000 women miss out on getting a smear test.
Comedian Mary Bourke s set was called Don t you dare call me a TERF . (Twitter/UnleashedComedy)
Comedian Mary Bourke is facing backlash over a set pillorying trans-inclusive language around cervical smear tests that also sees her cracking jokes at the expense of poor people.
Bourke, an Irish stand-up comedian, performed her show
Don’t You Dare Call Me a TERF at London’s “free-thinking” Unleashed Comedy club in September 2020.
A short video clip was published last week to widespread criticism. It begins with Bourke saying that she was recently sent a letter by the NHS informing her that it’s time for her routine smear test.
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The neck of the womb (i.e. the cervix) connects the womb and vagina inside a woman s body - it s where a baby passes through before it s born. Cervical cancer occurs when abnormal cells multiply in the cervix.
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