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The former President of the Supreme Court Baroness Brenda Hale joins Emma Barnett to give her reaction to the overturning of Roe vs Wade in the United States. She also talks about abortion law here in the UK, the upcoming barristers' strike and whether rape trials should get priority for court time.

A new campaign is being launched today, exclusively on Woman\u2019s Hour, aiming to help more women who are being underpaid their state pension. Mothers\u2019 Missing Millions is specifically aimed at women who spent time out of paid work bringing up children, mainly in the 1980\u2019s and 1990\u2019s \u2013 but did not receive credits for this on their National Insurance record as they should have done. According to the Department for Work and Pensions\u2019 annual report which came out in July, this is now \u2018the second largest\u2019 source of error on state pensions. Emma is joined by Steve Webb, the former pensions minister who now works at the corporate consulting firm LCP, which is offering a free guide to how women can fix this for themselves.

Listener Hannah got in touch asking us to talk about being motherless when you\u2019re about to become a mother yourself. In 2017 her mum was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer when Hannah was 24 weeks pregnant with her first child, and she sadly passed away when her grandchild turned one. Emma speaks to Hannah, as well as consultant perinatal psychologist Julianne Boutaleb.

In her new book, Look! We Have Come Through! Living with D.H. Lawrence, Lara Feigel, Professor of Modern Literature and Culture at King\u2019s College London, tells the story of a pandemic year spent in the company of her partner, her two children and D.H Lawrence. Lara joins Emma to talk about D.H Lawrence and how an author can inform and change your life.