Living in the UK, you’d be forgiven for thinking that Brexit was the only important thing happening in the world right now. The B-word dominates news reports and comedy panel shows and social media and conversations in the pub, and generally sucks up all of the available political airtime.

But while we’re attempting to keep track of the results of Theresa May’s trips to Brussels and trying to interpret Labour’s shifting stance on a second referendum, other vital political issues are being left to languish on the back burner. Last autumn, it seemed as if the government might finally be pushed to act on the issue of reproductive rights for women in Northern Ireland, where abortion is banned even in cases of rape, incest and fatal foetal abnormality, and women are prosecuted for taking or sourcing abortion pills that are legal in every other part of the UK.

In September, a group of Conservative MPs travelled to Belfast to discuss abortion reform with Northern Irish women, politicians, doctors and lawyers. A month later, MPs from across the political spectrum voted in favour of decriminalising terminations in Northern Ireland. While the MPs’ vote couldn’t compel the government to act, it did heap more pressure on the Prime Minister to give women in Northern Ireland the same access to safe, legal abortions as women everywhere else in the UK.

The Derry Girls protest shows Northern Irish women won’t stop fighting for abortion rights