In the video, Helen recounts: “It was very traumatic, sitting in a waiting room with heavily pregnant women, knowing this little flutter in my tummy was not gonna survive [...] But I just praise the treatment and the support we were given by the hospital because in other places it's different.”

Graham, who's worked on Father Ted, Black Books and The IT Crowd among others, added: “In Ireland, Helen would go to jail for going through with that operation [...] I'm very proud to call myself Irish, but I'm thoroughly ashamed of the abortion laws. And it's time that Ireland grew up about that.

“Irish politicians need to treat this as the emergency that it is.”

Later in the video, Helen discusses how she'd have had to carry the baby to term, going through body changes and labour, despite knowing the baby wouldn't have a chance of surviving, and may well have been in pain for the short time it lived.

Speaking to the Guardian, she said: “It would have been life-changing. To endure the full-term pregnancy, and to come home empty-handed and with the physical changes that come with pregnancy – it would have been awful. I don’t know how I would I have got through that, mentally or physically.”

She added: “It is a form of abuse against women. We need to have our own choices. If men had babies, the laws would be very different.”

“It is a form of abuse against women”: TV scriptwriter and wife urge change in Ireland's abortion law