Amnesty International Ireland: 25 Annoying Things

Being unable to get out of the bathtub or paint your toenails, knocking over small children with your enormous bump, morning sickness, cankles ... there are plenty of annoying things about pregnancy.

But in Ireland, being pregnant can involve more than mere inconvenience. Like being forced to carry a child which won't survive outside the womb, or having to undergo painful, invasive medical procedures without your consent.

The campaign to repeal the Eighth Amendment to Ireland's constitution (which equates the rights of an unborn child and a pregnant woman) has been gaining traction in recent months, and this powerful new film for Amnesty International Ireland, directed by Kathryn Ferguson, brings another angle to the debate by showing how the legislation puts all pregnant women in Ireland - not just those seeking an abortion - in danger, by limiting their right to make basic decisions about their own healthcare in pregnancy and childbirth.