Alexandra is fifteen when she becomes pregnant to her boyfriend. She loses her friends and her community when her church kicks her out. Alexandra has to balanced GCSES, pregnancy, labour and motherhood whilst losing her sense of self in a relationship that crushed her confidence and her happiness.
Grace discovers she is pregnant to a man who doesn’t care. She is refused an illegal abortion and must instead navigate life as an unmarried pregnant woman in 1980s Northern Ireland. Grace spends her entire pregnancy wondering whether she will be allowed to keep her baby in a family and a community which views her pregnancy as a shameful secret. Episode 2 of In Her Own Time is Grace’s Story.
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