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Taking the Boat

Lisa Keogh · UK · Drama · 14 min · 5.2K views
With Nora-Jane Noone, from The Descent

Directed by Lisa Keogh · Starring Nora-Jane Noone, Sophie Robinson, Richard Flood, Jason McLaughlin · 2013

Crossing the Irish Sea to seek an abortion in mainland Britain, a young woman meets a girl facing the same impossible situation.

A quietly powerful drama giving faces to thousands of women forced to travel for an abortion.

Almost 25,000 women have travelled from the island of Ireland to the UK mainland to have abortions in the last five years. This is the story of two.

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