Tuesday, 4th May 2021 at 4:17 pm
From the producers of harrowing real-life drama Three Girls comes a new BBC One drama focussing on the issue of strict abortion laws in Northern Ireland.
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Gwyneth Hughes (Doing Money) pens the compelling two-part series, and (as the title suggests) it follows three families whose lives are impacted by the Abortion Act of 1967, which legalised abortion in the UK but did not extend to Northern Ireland.
Based on real people, the characters include a mother and daughter whose lives are upended by an unwanted teenage pregnancy, and a married couple whose much-wanted first child will die of a fatal foetal abnormality.
The writer of a new drama which focuses on abortion in Northern Ireland has said she was “amazed” to discover how many women from the region travel to England to undergo the procedure.
Gwyneth Hughes’ two-part series Three Families, starring Sinead Keenan, is set between 2013 and 2019, and tells the true story of three women and their families before the recent change to legislation.
Abortion laws in the country were liberalised by MPs at Westminster in 2019 at a time when powersharing was collapsed.
A powerful new drama from the makers of Three Girls.
Three families tells the compelling real stories behind the abortion laws in Northern Ireland.
The writer of a new drama which focuses on abortion in Northern Ireland has said she was “amazed” to discover how many women from the region travel to England to undergo the procedure.
Gwyneth Hughes’ two-part series Three Families, starring Sinead Keenan, is set between 2013 and 2019, and tells the true story of three women and their families before the recent change to legislation.
Abortion laws in the country were liberalised by MPs at Westminster in 2019 at a time when powersharing was collapsed.
A powerful new drama from the makers of Three Girls.
Three families tells the compelling real stories behind the abortion laws in Northern Ireland.
The writer of a new drama which focuses on abortion in Northern Ireland has said she was “amazed” to discover how many women from the region travel to England to undergo the procedure.
Gwyneth Hughes’ two-part series Three Families, starring Sinead Keenan, is set between 2013 and 2019, and tells the true story of three women and their families before the recent change to legislation.
Abortion laws in the country were liberalised by MPs at Westminster in 2019 at a time when powersharing was collapsed.
A powerful new drama from the makers of Three Girls.
Three families tells the compelling real stories behind the abortion laws in Northern Ireland.