01x02 - Episode 2

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I'm pregnant.

She knew I was underage,

she knew he abused me.

She knew everything! And then

she asked me about the pills.

Could we have a word about

your daughter down at the station?

And we've decided that, yes,

we'll have the termination.

Well, you know that's not going

to happen. You will go on through

to the end of a normal pregnancy

and give birth to your baby

in the normal way.

Nothing about this is normal!

Nothing about this is right.

Your beautiful baby loves you.

Not so close, please.

How long will I get?

The maximum sentence is five years.

The government's considering

changing the law

on fatal foetal abnormality.

A woman's right to choose, end of.

No, we have to go for this.

There's women out there right now

being forced to give birth

to dead babies.

If it helps just one other person,

it'll be worth it.

I duly direct that the case be sent

up to the Crown Court to be tried

before a jury.

Your statement reads

really well, Hannah.

I think Judge Horner will take

it very seriously.

And, yes, we can keep your name

out of it.

"I would respectfully ask

that this court make an order

"that my identity should not

be revealed to any person."

That's the legal form of words.

Oh, yes, please, put that.

That would be a huge relief.

There's just one thing -

you were told

you'd missed the deadline

for a termination.

Because I was 23 weeks and six days,

yeah.

Over the water, in England,

with fatal foetal abnormality

..there is no deadline.

I didn't know.

II just accepted it. I

I didn't ask questions

I put the phone down!

Why will nobody ever give you

any proper information

in this country?

Government guidelines.

Vague ones. Strict but vague.

So strict and so vague

that our medics or nurses

..they've got too scared to tell

you anything about what's legal

and available.

Worried about their jobs.

Worried they could get prosecuted.

It's all wrong.

THERESA: I wasI was thinking that

human rights case might help us out.

I mean, I knowI know

it's a wee bit different, but

OK. Thanks, Rachel. Bye. Bye.

So a trial is listed to start

on the 27th of April

..for three weeks.

April? Next year?

This is a trial that was supposed

to happen before Christmas.

The trial your marvellous lawyer

said would never happen at all.

Quick, quick, quick, quick!

On you go!

Are we doing the right thing,

not telling the family

about the trial?

I'm the mother.

I ordered the pills,

it is my responsibility -

I will deal with it

as privately as I can, Mark, OK?

Nobody needs to know.

One day at a time.

I got it.

PROTESTERS CHAN

REPORTER: Angry protests outside

the High Court in Belfast today

against a landmark legal ruling.

The Northern Ireland

Human Rights Commission argued

that the almost total ban

on ab*rtion law here

denies women

their fundamental rights.

And today, the High Court

has ruled in favour

of the pro-choice campaigners.

So that's it? We won? Did we?

Yes, the law is wrong, but, no.

Judge Horner says the courts

can't go ahead and permit ab*rtion

in cases

of fatal foetal abnormality,

only an elected government

can do that.

The government? Stormont?

They're the problem

in the first place!

Don't tell us - tell the world.

It's a big step, Hannah.

Look, I can't talk.

I know, so just listen.

This human rights judgment

could be a real game changer

for us, Theresa.

It's potentially very good news.

I'm going to use it to ask

the Public Prosecution Service

and the police to drop their case

against you.

I want everyone to know how unjust

the law is here in Northern Ireland.

And I want the government

to understand

that no-one should ever

have to endure what I did.

I just can't sit back and do nothing

knowing there are other women

and families going through

the same thing.

And no-one should ever be forced

to continue with a pregnancy

if they don't want to.

And so the courts have sent

this most divisive of issues

back to politicians at Stormont.

You're not the girl I married.

In a good way?

A star is born!

Here, we'll have a glass of wine

to celebrate.

No, but you can make me

a cup of tea.

A big one - tea for two.

A baby?

I'm so scared.

Me too.

Scared

..and happy.

Which?

Choose.

Happy.

Look, we know

it was just a random thing,

what happened with Molly.

We got the all clear.

We know neither of us is a carrier.

But what if?

Nothing will go wrong this time.

It'll be the end of me if it does.

Went fine. Fine, fine -

God, what does fine mean?

It means, for an old girl,

I'm doing well.

SHE GIGGLES

Oh, and the baby takes after me.

As in? Long legs.

BOTH LAUGH

Are you calling me a short-arse?

Well, would you just rub

those wee legs together

and get home?

Your wish is my command.

Look up, look up.

HE LAUGHS

Oh, go! Go get him! Go!

Bringing you back

to Northern Ireland -

best thing I ever did.

Thanks.

Never thought

this would happen for me.

40's not old, not these days.

They mentioned

this quadruple blood test.

They offer that to anyone over 35.

Well, now I feel really ancient!

It's completely routine.

REPORTER: The headlines, again,

all change at the top

as Arlene Foster takes charge

of the Northern Ireland Assembly.

She's the first woman

First Minister in history.

Next news at 2pm.

I don't know,

might be nice to have a woman

in charge for a change.

I have no time for it -

all as bad as each other.

She's a mother herself,

so she's on the side of the angels

when it comes to the big stuff.

She proves you don't have to be

a Catholic to see that it's m*rder,

pure and simple.

Yeah, you know, those wee girls, you

know,

what if they've been r*ped,

for instance,

or were underage?

Two wrongs don't make a right.

Or is it the wee child's fault

how it got here?

And if he's disabled, so what?

He's still human.

He has rights.

Sorry, am I banging on?

Do you know what I think?

Orla. No, but I have an idea

you're about to tell me.

I think ab*rtion is a woman's right

to choose. God in heaven!

I've had enough.

She's young.

She doesn't mean it,

I'm sorry. Orla.

Orla!

When did I ever bring you up

to be so rude?

She is a bigot and I can't stand

listening to her.

Louise is on her own.

It is tough for her.

And, you know, ifif you really

believed that ab*rtion was m*rder,

you would fight to the death

to stop it, too.

Do you think what we did was m*rder?

Honestly? I don't know.

But I know I wouldI would do it

all again if I had to.

You'll catch your death

with that wet hair.

PHONE RINGS

Hello? Mrs Fortress?

That's me. It's Sheena,

the midwife from the hospital,

about the quadruple test you did.

Yes?

I get it, I do, but the test said

one in five,

a one-in-five chance

of this syndrome.

But that's not high, is it?

That means I'm 80% fine.

My baby is 80% fine.

Your scan shows clenched fists.

Can you see?

No.

There are cysts on her brain.

She has a diaphragmatic hernia,

her stomach is sitting

in her rib cage on top of her lungs

and her heart.

It's on the wrong side

of her body.

Dr Brewster, I've found children

surviving to the age of 18.

Those children have what's called

partial or mosaic Edwards'.

Well, well,

then we'll look it up again.

We'll get a second opinion.

Mrs Fortress, your baby

has full Edwards' syndrome -

every cell in her body is wrong.

I am so very sorry, but the syndrome

is incompatible with life.

And we need to talk about what to do

if she survives her birth.

She will be in a lot of pain,

so whether to attempt

resuscitation

..or just make her comfortable.

You can go to the mainland.

TOILET FLUSHES

Manchester or Liverpool.

I-I don't understand.

Just go to the mainland, love.

It's what all the women do,

what we've always done.

PIERCING TONE

ECHOING FOOTSTEPS

WHISPERS: Migraine.

REPORTER: To Stormont now,

where MLAs will vote today

on a controversial proposal

to allow ab*rtion

in cases

of fatal foetal abnormality.

It follows Judge Horner's ruling

that the current law breaches

women's human rights.

I'm trying to be excited

rather than scared,

but it's just so many tests

and scans and monitoring.

I'm constantly

in and out of the clinic.

But, no, I would not rather be

sat on my bum at home.

SHE CHUCKLES

Not until after

I've stood right here,

at Stormont,

cheering on our victory.

You might have a bit of a wait.

The politicians up there'd argue

till kingdom come rather than make

any useful decisions.

Doesn't it ever get you down?

The long old grind of it.

I've been campaigning

for half a century.

An old trout like me has to learn

how to pace herself.

HANNAH LAUGHS, PHONE RINGS

Oh, God, is that the result? Hello?

Yes.

Oh, God, they voted it down?

They really think they can just go

against the High Court

in a human rights ruling?

Well, they can think again

because we are not going anywhere.

Up there,

ab*rtion is the only thing

they all agree on.

APPLAUSE

CHEERING

NESBITT: It's Dickensian.

This is Bleak House we are in today,

in the chancery courts,

waiting day after day after day

after day

for a decision that never comes.

REPORTER: Following a passionate

debate at Stormont,

the proposal on fatal foetal

abnormality was defeated

by 59 votes to 40.

Attorney General John Larkin QC

has advised the change could breach

the UN Convention on the Rights

of Persons with Disability.

They don't know what they're saying,

they've not been through it.

John, I'm not sure

I can do this any more.

Your campaigning?

But you love it.

I just can't go out there and

..look cheerful

when inside I'm such a wreck.

I tell you what, then, why don't

the two of us stop at home

and be a couple of wrecks together?

SHE LAUGHS

Hmm?

No, no, love, go back to bed.

I'll bring you something. It's OK.

My migraine's gone.

It's four days this time.

Well, they're always so much worse

when I'm under stress.

Stress?

SHE LAUGHS BETWEEN TEARS

I think you accepted it was hopeless

before I did.

Maybe, but I'm not

the one going through it.

It's OK.

I'm ready.

OK.

Right, well, I've looked it all up,

and the law in Northern Ireland

clearly says you can get

a termination,

but only if the mother's life

is at risk,

or there must be a risk of real

and serious adverse effect

on her physical or mental health

..which is either long-term

or permanent.

Rosie, that's you, that's you.

SHE SIGHS

Well,

I have a fat old file to show them.

HE LAUGHS SOFTLY

ORLA: Ma, got any more teabags?

Look in that top cupboard.

I'm off to work, then.

Will I nip to the shop?

You OK? Well, I didn't get

much sleep either.

Orla caught me leaving the house

dressed like this -

the face on her.

Now, listen, Theresa,

I'm optimistic that the trial

may not start today, after all.

No. No, not more delays.

Our QC thinks we've got enough

to challenge the whole basis

of the prosecution.

I'm not going to see my wee boy

grow up, am I?

I'm going to lose my family

and my home,

and my son is going

to lose his mother,

and he's not even four yet!

He doesn't deserve this.

You don't deserve it either.

Jesus, I keep it together at home.

I don't let them see -

you're the only one.

But, Rachel

..you've worked so hard on this -

I mean, Jesus,

we're not even paying you -

but I just feel like giving up.

You're stronger than you know -

the strongest person I ever met.

Theresa,

I can fight this to my last breath

if I know you're right beside me.

We can do this.

OK?

FADING: There's no jury yet,

it's just legal arguments,

so you won't be sitting in court.

The judge has granted us

three weeks' delay.

It's good, it's good.

We're going to apply

for judicial review

to challenge the original decision

to prosecute.

We're saying that forcing Orla

to continue a crisis pregnancy

would have been inhuman

and degrading treatment,

in breach of her human rights.

She'll just be giving

a written statement.

No. She won't have

to stand up in court.

Look, she's 18 years old,

but she's still my child.

Theresa Theresa!

I said no. Orla's on the line.

You went to her behind my back?

No, of course not.

She found my number.

Orla?

ORLA: You let me think

it'd all just gone away.

I wanted to protect you.

You already did that, Ma.

You did it when I was a kid.

Now I'm not.

They're threatening to send

my one and only mummy to prison.

What am I meant to do without her?

Liam's only three.

You want me to just do nothing?

I want for this to be

so none of this ever happened.

What doesn't k*ll you

makes you stronger.

THERESA LAUGHS

OK, I read way too much

self-help shite. Mm-hm.

I mean it, though.

I want to help.

You want to help?

You could do a bit more washing-up.

ORLA LAUGHS

No, no, thank you.

Oh, worth a shot.

A month till your A levels,

and you need to concentrate.

Look, if I want to go see

this Rachel, I'll go see her.

I'll go on my own, I don't care.

Theresa, we talked about this.

We agreed to keep her out of it.

Excuse me, but this is all about me.

No, it's not. Listen to yourself.

Who's the one facing

five years behind bars?

And that's exactly

why I need to do this,

to make it all go away for her.

How do you not see that?!

Stop it, for Christ's sake,

the pair of yous.

Look, Orla, you're always saying

that you're a grown-up.

OK, can you ever just try

acting like one? I am, Ma.

This is what grown-up looks like -

standing up for myself.

I want everyone to hear

why she did it.

Mark, you're coming too.

I want you there.

Please.

Fine.

I was only 15 years old,

and I was frightened

..at the prospect of being a mother.

I was still a child myself.

Still at school.

And I had always planned

to do my A levels.

I wanted to go to university.

I had begun telling my mother

bit by bit

..about all the ways

that my ex-boyfriend had treated me.

The idea of him

..being the father of my child

..and being in my life

in the long term

made me physically ill.

I was also genuinely afraid

..that he could physically abuse

the child

..if I decided to go through

with the pregnancy.

Bringing it all back,

it's not fair.

She shouldn't have to do this.

I do, though.

I've never told you, Orla

..that you are brave

and clever and beautiful.

Your mother's daughter, 100%.

We're all in this together.

From now on.

ROSIE: A full-on nervous breakdown,

yes,

on top of these terrible migraines.

We were living in Birmingham

and I was ill, so ill,

for days and days on end -

sickness, diarrhoea -

and nothing could stop them.

I couldn't work, couldn't go out

And the pain, it's so intense

that it's crippling, really.

And I just reached

the end of my rope.

There was a psychotic episode,

and they wanted to take me

into hospital, but my husband

thought it might help me more

if they brought me home,

to Northern Ireland.

I said, "You don't know the place."

I can see a history of depression.

I believe my file shows

the risk to my mental health

is significant.

I believe I meet the legal test.

ab*rtion on mental health grounds

is really, in practice,

not possible.

Well, for a woman in my position,

though,

the law clearly states

Mrs Fortress,

the legal bar is set very high,

so high that

ROSIE STAMMERS

I am carrying a baby

with no chance of life.

I can see how distressing

this is for you.

But if you can't help me,

then who can? Where do I go?

I-I can't advise you on that.

You can't advise me?

But you're a doctor!

Look, we can manage your distress

withwith medication.

No

What if I were to say to you,

Dr Coleman,

that my distress

is so acute

that I am contemplating suicide?

What would you advise?

Again, medication.

That's medication that might

further harm my unborn child.

What do you advise?

Doctor, look at my file.

We have to work

within government guidelines.

No, but if I don't qualify,

then who does?

SEAGULLS CAW

£1,400.

Plus flights to Manchester, yeah.

Yeah, I'll start looking

at those now.

OK, thanks. Bye.

PIERCING TONE

ECHOING CAWS

MUFFLED ECHOING

LABOURED BREATHING

DRIVER: Is she OK?

I don't know if I can do this.

I can send the taxi away

and drive us myself.

I can't see. Rosie, if we don't go

now, we'll miss the flight,

we won't make the appointment.

Oh, Rosie

Is there anything I can do?

SHE COUGHS

SHE SOBS

Oh, I'm sorry. I'm so sorry.

Don't you ever say sorry to me.

Will I wait?

CAR DOOR CLOSES

I wish

I'd never brought you back here.

ENGINE STARTS

What's that? Lizards.

And what's that?

Bike.

SHE GASPS

He's going straight

to the top of the class.

ORLA: Mam!

She won the lottery? No.

Oh, my God.

I'm going to university!

LAUGHING AND CHEERING

Oh, well done!

You clever girl! Come here to me!

Oh, listen,

not for a year, though.

I'm going to defer. You will not.

No granddaughter of mine is going

to sit on a beach in Bali for a year

picking her nose.

I need to be here for my mummy.

Your mother will enjoy

the peace and quiet.

I know something's up.

I've known it for a while.

Look, Liam, do you want

to go upstairs with Orla?

She'll read you a wee story.

Yeah, come on. Good boy.

FOOTSTEPS FADE

This is a really big day for her.

Don't change the subject.

I'm not.

Three years ago,

we didn't know if she'd get here.

Drugs? No.

Pregnant?!

What'd you do, take her to England?

No, no.

I just

..got her some pills

off the internet.

Sure, there's a woman all over

the papers facing prison for that!

Yeah.

There is.

All this time, I've been thinking,

is it money worries?

Is her marriage failing?

Is it, God forbid, cancer?

SHE EXHALES SHARPLY

The sleep you've cost me, Theresa.

So why didn't you ever ask me?

Excuse me?

Who's in the wrong here?

My own daughter keeping something

as big as that from me?

What kind of mother

does that make me?

The type I always wanted to please

and never could.

No, that's unfair.

Come on, Mummy!

If I'd have come to you

three years ago, Jesus!

You're right.

I would've called the wrath

of heaven down upon you.

But the world is changing, pet.

I know that. I watch the news too.

Tell me what I can do to help.

You can wait with me, Mammy.

Waiting's all there is to it.

Oh

SHE GROANS SOFTLY

She's gone, isn't she?

I felt it.

The moment she died.

I felt her go.

The birth will be induced,

and I'll get you booked

into room five on Sunday.

Uh, room five?

It's what we call

the bereavement suite.

You've not long to wait, then.

Oh, I'm not as pregnant as I look.

My baby has Edwards' syndrome -

she can't absorb the amniotic fluid,

so I just get bigger and bigger.

Lord above!

I never heard of such a thing.

I'm going into room five

on Sunday

..and the baby I'll be bringing home

will be dead

..cos she's dead already.

I have to carry her around

inside me until Sunday.

And she's dead.

And

..I need something

for her to wear

..for whenever I bring her home.

But I can't see

..I can't see to choose.

This one's nice. This one's pretty.

SCREAMING

SCREAMING INTENSIFIES AND ECHOES

MUFFLED BABY CRIES

BABY CRIES

I dare think

she is the most beautiful baby

the world has ever seen.

She absolutely is.

She absolutely is.

Oh, my goodness, she is!

I'm looking forward to

a bit of a quiet life now.

SHE LAUGHS

With a baby in the house?

You know what I mean.

A quiet life.

BABY FUSSES AND CRIES

REPORTER: Northern Ireland is

without a government tonight

after the shock resignation

of Martin McGuinness.

Under the power-sharing rules,

his move forces

First Minister Arlene Foster

also to step down.

The Assembly will be dissolved

in the next number of days.

And that, of course, is deeply

regrettable, that Northern Ireland

will have no Assembly

and functioning executive

over the coming period.

The move ends a decade

of uneasy cooperation,

and all new legislation

currently before Stormont will fall,

including ab*rtion law reform.

Oh, for God's sake.

Right. One more.

The Private Member's Bill, yes,

we'd high hopes of that,

but it won't happen now -

nobody left inside Stormont

to vote on anything.

No

Mother got the pills

for her daughter, yes.

Her judicial review is being set up.

So it would have to be today

that the lift stops working!

Oh, my God!

Can I call you back?

Oh! Thanks.

Oh!

It's so good to see you!

Oh, to see the both of yous.

Oh, look at her.

Oh, she's like her da.

All wee babies look like their da -

to stop the man from straying.

You and your nonsense!

Start her young - no time to lose.

Oh, yes. Yes, I'm here. Hello.

So what can I do to help?

After all the letters we wrote

and all the petitions

and all that work,

and what a waste of time

No, no, listen.

The government collapse

and the power vacuum in Stormont,

it's totally not a disaster for us.

It's an opportunity.

We're already talking to women

at Westminster.

Starting again.

Westminster?

How long is that going to take?

How long have you got?

So that was your judicial review.

Two whole days of lawyers in wigs

banging on,

and we're still going home

without an answer.

For God's sake

Reserve judgment?

What's that supposed to mean?

The judge has to go away

and think about it.

How are you not furious about that?

I know the waiting's hard.

I don't know how you're still

on your feet after five years

of it. What choice do I have?

I've got children.

I've got to keep going for them.

I'm got to keep going for you.

Huh?

No, I'm not having that.

I'm not that man.

I'm the one you used to chatter on

to day and night.

Before all this shite,

you were always ringing me up

about some nonsense.

We were friends, best friends.

We could talk about anything.

I miss that woman, Theresa.

I miss that life.

If I let go

..if I let it all out,

even with you

..that wee bit of strength

that I have left,

it'll all just leak away.

Just let me in. Hmm?

REPORTER: Our top story tonight -

should a mother go to prison

for helping her underage daughter

get an ab*rtion?

The High Court in Belfast

has been hearing all the arguments

on the second day

of the landmark legal challenge.

The mother and daughter,

who cannot be named, are seeking

to overturn the decision

to prosecute

in advance of a criminal trial,

which could impose

a five-year prison sentence.

Our legal correspondent has spent

the day at the High Court

For God's sakes!

..listening to the arguments.

It's inhuman.

In seeking judicial review of

the Public Prosecution Service

decision to send her for trial,

the mother

PHONE RINGS

Right To Choose, Hannah speaking.

How can I help?

Oh, I was just listening about

that poor woman and her daughter.

Thought I wanted to help.

Well, that's terrific. Thank you.

Since Stormont went down the pan,

we've been encouraging everyone

to lobby the Westminster government

to change the law.

Can I take your name?

Only if you want to give it.

Mummy!

Sorry, I've got my daughter with me.

Uh

Maybemaybe I'll call back

another time.

No, no, please, please don't.

I'm sorry for your trouble,

whatever it's been for you.

My name's Hannah.

I'm Rosie.

Most of our friends

don't talk to us any more, you know.

"Why don't you just get over it?"

The thing is, I can't get over it.

I had a childand now I don't.

Will you try again?

No.

I'm too oldand too sad.

You know the worst thing, Hannah?

When they kept asking me

.."If she's born alive,

do you want us to resuscitate her?"

Like we only got the right to choose

after she was born.

You know, whenever we first heard

about this inquiry, I thought maybe

we'd get a nice trip to London

out of it.

And here we are in a glamorous

night out in Derry.

Hello, I'm Maria Miller, MP.

I'm chair of the Women

and Equalities Select Committee

of the House of Commons.

We're here from Westminster,

and we're really grateful to you

for coming along today.

We want to hear a little bit

from each of you about how the law

on ab*rtion in Northern Ireland

has impacted you and your families.

So

Mrs Kennedy?

ab*rtion was never on my radar.

I had bought a house, got engaged,

got married, planned to have kids,

tried for a baby, fell pregnant,

and that was my path.

Sorry, I'm a wee bit nervous.

You're absolutely fine.

There is something I really want you

to know,

something that only really hit me

recently, five years later.

See, I was just talking

to this other woman, Rosie,

and the thing is, I was asked

what I wanted to happen

if my daughter was born alive.

Do we intervene and resuscitate,

or do we make her comfortable

and let her pass?

So I was given a choice.

Only then,

when she was no longer in my womb,

only then was I allowed

to decide. So

..to me and to Rosie,

that does not make sense.

NEWS INTRO MUSIC

Tonight, a potentially

game-changing moment,

as you've been hearing,

for pro-choice campaigners

in Northern Ireland, as Parliament

voted by a landslide

to legalise ab*rtion.

The ayes to the right - 332,

the noes to the left - 99.

In the absence of an Assembly,

come October the 21st,

steps must be taken

to reform ab*rtion laws here

to comply with human rights

legislation.

Yes!

There's a deadline now,

but they've still got three months.

Stormont could still get their act

together in time?

Hmm Even if we do get a new law

out of it, well, if it's imposed

by Westminster, it's

..it's unconstitutional,

is what it is.

It's imperialist.

Come on.

It's direct rule. I don't care.

That's cos you're a Protestant!

No, it's because I'm a woman!

LAUGHTER

REPORTER: Thousands of pro-life

campaigners have gathered

at Stormont to mount

a silent protest.

The organisers claim support

from all religious backgrounds

and political persuasions,

united against

the Westminster deadline,

which, come October the 21st,

will impose liberalisation

of the law against their will.

Their message, "We were not asked.

They cannot speak."

DOOR OPENS

Maybe the politicians

will pull something off.

Sort themselves out at Stormont

before the deadline.

No.

I don't think so.

Thanks for coming, Theresa.

I got home from Stormont,

and I thought, "It's just hopeless.

"The bad guys are winning,

and there's nothing I can do.

"Who can I call who won't tell me

I'm an idiot?" Don't be daft.

We're always here for each other,

aren't we?

Here, do you know what?

I didn't like you

when I first met you.

THERESA LAUGHS

Well, I liked you.

Well, I liked everyone

when I was eight years old.

Always so calm and forgiving.

Always picking me out of fights

and dusting me down.

I wish you'd find the comfort here

that I do.

Pope Francis says

every child that isn't born

but is unjustly condemned

to be aborted

has the face of Jesus Christ.

The face of the Lord.

Maybe the wee girls

have his face too

..when we send them

across the water.

If you want the truth, Louise,

the reason I've stayed away

from the church is because

..I didn't know

how to be a good Catholic

and a good mother to a teenage girl.

Whatever you do in your life

..God is kind and patient

..and He loves you.

REPORTER: Deadline day at Stormont,

where the political parties

have until midnight to agree

to form an administration.

The stakes are high.

If they fail to overcome

their differences, the Westminster

government will step in

to impose ab*rtion law reform.

We're just hearing now

from inside Stormont.

DUP leader Arlene Foster

has conceded defeat

in her last-ditch attempt

to re-establish the collapsed

power-sharing government.

It means, as of tonight, ab*rtion

is no longer a criminal offence

in Northern Ireland.

SHE SIGHS

It is a very sad day,

and I know some people

will seek to celebrate today,

and I would say to those people,

think of those of us

who are sad today and who believe

that this is an affront

to human dignity and to human life.

I think that the circus

I never thought I'd find myself

warming to that DUP woman.

Hmm.

She's shown a deal of dignity.

We won't give up, no way.

We'll get it overturned.

Night, love.

Are the real doctors and nurses

willing to do it, anyway?

He's already done it, Ma.

Yeah, I know, but he never really

does the worktops properly.

You're such a mother hen.

Admit it, you even mother

a piece of string -

it's like a default mode for you.

Ma

I'm the last man standing

..and I still have to go to trial.

REPORTER: It's judgment day

for the woman on trial

for getting her daughter pills.

She's attempting to get her case

thrown out on the grounds

of a recent human rights

..to consider the case of the woman

facing trial for giving ab*rtion

pills to her underage daughter.

PHONE RINGS

Hello?

It's over!

Theresa, you're not guilty.

The prosecution offered

no evidence against you.

Theresa?

VOICE QUIVERING: Thank you.

I need a statement for the media -

they're outside, they're everywhere.

I'm all over the place.

Let me think, let me think.

Um

I find it hard to

..put into words how I'm feeling.

For the first time in six years,

I can go back to being the mother

that I was without this hanging

over me every minute of every day.

And I can finally move on

with my life.

"I am so thankful that the change

in the law will allow other women

"and girls to deal with matters

like this privately,

"in their own family circle."

My client has been put through

six years of agony.

I hope she can now be allowed

to put it behind her. Thank you.

Don't say anything.

Anything you say is just

going to make us cry again.

I was only going to say,

fancy a fish supper?

THEY LAUGH

Oh, God, you know what?

Yes. Cos I want to go down

to the chippy and boast about yous.

I want to tell the whole world

what my brave and beautiful women

just did.

God, don't you dare.

ORLA LAUGHS

Come on, son, let's go.

I'll join ya. Come on, then.

Do you know what's funny? Hmm?

I'd just gotten to the point

of really wanting my day in court.

Oh, my God, stop!

Oh, well.

First day of the rest of our lives,

huh?

HANNAH: ..46, 47, 48, 49,

50, 51, 52,

53, 54,

55, 56,

57, 58,

59

..60.