Mike Buchanan And Dr Anna Smajdor, A Medical Ethicist, Discuss Compulsory Paternity Testing At Birth

Mike Buchanan: Shelagh Fogerty is a well-regarded presenter on LBC Radio, and this discussion about paternity fraud centred on the issue of mandatory paternity testing at birth. - J4MB strongly supports the policy, and it was in our 2015 general election manifesto. - Arguing against the idea was Dr Anna Smajdor, a Lecturer in Ethics at the Norwich Medical School: web.archive.org/web/20160407152415/https://www.uea.ac.uk/medicine/people... Dr Smajdor's utter lack of interest in men who are the victims of paternity fraud, and lack of compassion for them - and for the children also affected by the fraud - was simply breathtaking.
The only person of interest to her was the fraudulent woman, who in her view should not be exposed as having committed a crime (under the Fraud Act 2006) through mandatory paternity testing at birth.

We felt that Shelagh Fogerty's position was moving towards our own as she engaged with callers (all male) for the final 24 minutes of the piece.

A longer file (36:33) can be found on our Vimeo channel, with a further 22 minutes of exchanges between Shelagh and callers (all male):