Summary: <p><a href="https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-irish-passport/id1246162545?mt=2"><img class="alignleft wp-image-155" src="https://theirishpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/available-on-itunes-logo-300x112-2-300x112.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="56"></a><a href="https://www.patreon.com/theirishpassport"><img class="alignleft wp-image-561 size-full" src="https://theirishpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/support-this-is-horror-on-patreon-e1522755726716.png" alt="" width="150" height="75"></a>Ireland has one of the strictest abortion laws in Europe. Banned unless the woman’s life is in serious danger, it carries a 14-year prison sentence. Rumblings of change are beginning, but some a campaign could open up ugly political fault lines. Why is Ireland like this? Tim and Naomi explore the strange and surprising backstory to Ireland’s constitutional abortion ban. Tim hears from a journalist who snuck contraband condoms into 1970s Dublin. We hear from Ireland’s 31-year-old health minister on what change he wants to see, while Naomi meets a 17 year-old student who has swapped her textbooks for a megaphone in the pro-choice campaign. Just don’t let her Catholic school find out…</p>
