:00:00. > :00:13.Hello and welcome to Inside Out. This week, we report on why women
:00:14. > :00:17.for the Isle of Man are leaving the island to have abortions.
:00:18. > :00:21.Unfortunately it is not funded by the NHS and they have to finance the
:00:22. > :00:24.procedure themselves. We discover how sport is helping
:00:25. > :00:29.those who are blind or losing their sight. Before this I was isolated
:00:30. > :00:32.and didn't know what to do, so coming along here has been an
:00:33. > :00:41.opportunity to both play competitive sport and both socialise.
:00:42. > :00:45.And we meet artist Stan Chow, who's gone from drawing on chip paper to
:00:46. > :00:51.drawing Donald Trump for the cover of the New York Times. I struggled
:00:52. > :01:01.with him a bit. I think I finally got him!
:01:02. > :01:04.Terminating a pregnancy can be one of the most difficult decisions any
:01:05. > :01:08.But on the Isle of Man, current law prevents abortion
:01:09. > :01:11.Tomorrow that could all change with a new proposal which would
:01:12. > :01:15.transform the law for the first time in 20 years.
:01:16. > :01:27.The Isle of Man is situated 80 miles off the Lancashire coast,
:01:28. > :01:29.and although separate from the UK with its own Parliament,
:01:30. > :01:33.the laws that govern the island are almost exactly the same.
:01:34. > :01:40.They do, however, differ on a very divisive issue - abortion.
:01:41. > :01:42.Abortion is legal in Great Britain up to 24 weeks, under
:01:43. > :01:51.The Isle of Man's Termination of Pregnancy Act of 1995 legalised
:01:52. > :01:57.abortion but only under strict criteria, where the pregnancy risks
:01:58. > :01:59.causing grave permanent injury to the woman's physical
:02:00. > :02:05.This has meant that the official number of abortions on the Isle
:02:06. > :02:08.of Man is usually around ten per year.
:02:09. > :02:12.Since April last year, a group of Manx women have been
:02:13. > :02:17.fighting for their right to choose to terminate unwanted pregnancies.
:02:18. > :02:21.The Campaign for Abortion Law Modernisation, or Calm,
:02:22. > :02:27.want to bring Manx law more in line with Great Britain.
:02:28. > :02:30.Well, we're aware that 479 women in the last five years have
:02:31. > :02:32.travelled across to the UK, so that's around about 98 women
:02:33. > :02:35.a year who are travelling, and those are just the ones
:02:36. > :02:42.In the UK, the vast majority of terminations, 80%,
:02:43. > :02:44.are performed at under ten weeks, which involves taking two
:02:45. > :02:49.sets of tablets under the supervision of a doctor.
:02:50. > :02:52.Any woman living on the Isle of Man wishing to abort a pregnancy
:02:53. > :02:56.would either have to travel to Britain, or some women have been
:02:57. > :02:59.ordering the same tablets online and having a miscarriage at home
:03:00. > :03:07.And the fact that people can go to their doctors and ask,
:03:08. > :03:09."Can I have an abortion?", and they're told, "We can't help
:03:10. > :03:11.you", so they're left to their own devices,
:03:12. > :03:15.they're left to google, to find out what their options are.
:03:16. > :03:18.Anyone found guilty of aborting a child on the island could face
:03:19. > :03:26.We hear from people who have taken abortion tablets at home
:03:27. > :03:29.with no medical support, who are then scared and frightened,
:03:30. > :03:39.They can't go to A because they're terrified that they're going to get
:03:40. > :03:42.in trouble and that they're going to be put in prison.
:03:43. > :03:44.Just before the Manx election in September,
:03:45. > :03:48.another group of campaigners formed a group called Humanity and Equality
:03:49. > :04:03.They say they represent the life of the unborn child.
:04:04. > :04:14.The reason I'm passionate about the abortion issue is for three reasons.
:04:15. > :04:18.Human beings have the right to life and an unborn child is a human
:04:19. > :04:21.being and should be given that right and needs to be spoken for.
:04:22. > :04:24.He treated people with mental difficulties that arose
:04:25. > :04:26.from past abortions, and thirdly, I've had a career
:04:27. > :04:29.as a GP and looked after many pregnant women and many unexpected
:04:30. > :04:30.pregnancies that became a real blessing.
:04:31. > :04:36.The thing is, though, we've got to balance the right
:04:37. > :04:39.of the woman to life and health and the right of the baby to life
:04:40. > :04:43.and health, and in my view you cannot say that the baby is not
:04:44. > :04:47.Both campaigns were very vocal in the run-up to the Manx elections
:04:48. > :04:49.in September and are hoping to influence the new Health and
:04:50. > :04:54.But she says the Government is very clear on this issue.
:04:55. > :04:57.We don't have a position going one way or another with regard
:04:58. > :05:06.We're going to review it to see if it needs updating.
:05:07. > :05:16.But obviously it's too early to say which way that's going to go.
:05:17. > :05:18.The law here is very different to the UK.
:05:19. > :05:23.Presumably there wasn't an appetite for it.
:05:24. > :05:27.You've got two groups that both say different things.
:05:28. > :05:30.Maybe that's why it hasn't changed, as there are two opposing forces.
:05:31. > :05:32.We are at the beginning of the process, looking at it
:05:33. > :05:39.and seeing if there's an appetite for change.
:05:40. > :05:44.Currently, Manx citizens can travel to the UK for health care that can't
:05:45. > :05:47.be provided on the island, such as cancer treatment,
:05:48. > :05:48.neurological surgery and even complicated antenatal care.
:05:49. > :05:51.The NHS on the Isle of Man foots the bill, including
:05:52. > :05:58.Abortion is one of the few exceptions.
:05:59. > :06:00.This has led to many women going away, travelling
:06:01. > :06:12.One of the organisations that deals with them is BPAS.
:06:13. > :06:16.BPAS is a not-for-profit reproductive charity.
:06:17. > :06:25.It sees 70,000 women funded by NHS clinic across the UK.
:06:26. > :06:34.We provide pregnancy advice, contraception, abortion care.
:06:35. > :06:38.Women from the Isle of Man are able to receive treatment but it's not
:06:39. > :06:48.funded by the NHS and they have to finance it themselves.
:06:49. > :06:50.We know women in areas are unable to get access
:06:51. > :06:55.The medication is safe but it's illegal and they
:06:56. > :07:05.Does it concern you that women who can't afford to travel are maybe
:07:06. > :07:12.That is a concern and that's something we're working with the UK
:07:13. > :07:16.authorities and the Customs Excise to bring in line quickly,
:07:17. > :07:22.It's also a criminal offence if those tablets
:07:23. > :07:33.Technically, I suppose, but it's hardly likely.
:07:34. > :07:38.The medical professionals over here say it's not illegal
:07:39. > :07:43.But it could be put to the test as early as tomorrow morning.
:07:44. > :07:47.Dr Alex Allinson, a former GP and new member of the House of Keys,
:07:48. > :07:57.hopes raising the issue tomorrow will result in a change in the law.
:07:58. > :08:00.This is an incredibly vibrant place to live.
:08:01. > :08:03.We are groundbreaking in terms of civil partnerships and we've got
:08:04. > :08:05.an Equality Bill coming through, so why shouldn't we look
:08:06. > :08:09.at the abortion law as well and make sure it's up-to-date for the women
:08:10. > :08:16.Until then, women will continue to make the journey across the sea.
:08:17. > :08:25.But as they aren't entitled to NHS care, most will have to pay.
:08:26. > :08:31.Her organisation is many women's last resort.
:08:32. > :08:32.They provide financial assistance to those
:08:33. > :08:52.Between having a child and not having one.
:08:53. > :09:04.The money for the procedure, travel, all the costs, it adds up.
:09:05. > :09:14.?400 to ?2,000, which is not something that everybody has.
:09:15. > :09:20.For most of us, we come to it with this idea of, I'm a parent and this
:09:21. > :09:22.is a big deal, and you want to give that job to somebody who wants that
:09:23. > :09:25.job and not as a punishment for a job and not as a punishment for a
:09:26. > :09:30.broken condom or a lapse in judgment or being raped.
:09:31. > :09:34.Before I contacted you, I was looking for ways to self-abort.
:09:35. > :09:59.She thought the shock to her system would cause a miscarriage.
:10:00. > :10:04.No, for the child it's life or death.
:10:05. > :10:07.For the mother it is not usually a choice of life or death.
:10:08. > :10:09.It's a choice of a very difficult situation that
:10:10. > :10:14.she's found herself in, and that's an agonising situation,
:10:15. > :10:16.and we all have to take responsibility for the agonising
:10:17. > :10:28.Those in favour of abortion often suggest the debate centres
:10:29. > :10:30.upon when the foetus becomes sufficiently human to
:10:31. > :10:33.Opponents believe the foetus is never anything other
:10:34. > :10:36.than human from conception, and therefore has a right
:10:37. > :10:42.It's a key point in the debate, especially for those
:10:43. > :10:44.involved in drafting laws regulating abortion.
:10:45. > :10:47.There will be a period of public consultations, but ultimately,
:10:48. > :10:51.it's up to the members of the House of Keys to decide whether
:10:52. > :11:09.Social isolation can be a major problem for people who are blind or
:11:10. > :11:12.partially sighted. But in Lancashire, sport is playing a
:11:13. > :11:16.surprising role in helping young people who are born without vision
:11:17. > :11:24.or are losing their sight. Simon O'Brien investigates.
:11:25. > :11:30.Take a careful look. This is no ordinary game of cricket. Which is
:11:31. > :11:36.just as well! Because these are no ordinary players. All of the people
:11:37. > :11:45.playing are blind or partially sighted. Yeah, I know. How do they
:11:46. > :11:48.do that? Good question. And who better to answer it than the club
:11:49. > :11:54.founder, who himself is partially sighted? First of all, this game,
:11:55. > :12:00.communication is a massive factor. In this game. If you have limited
:12:01. > :12:06.sight, audibility is a big part. The ball is going to bounce twice, so
:12:07. > :12:11.that blind or low sighted player who comes into that classification has
:12:12. > :12:16.an opportunity to hear the ball on bounce, second bounce, so they have
:12:17. > :12:20.an opportunity to play. You can feel quite isolated at times so this is a
:12:21. > :12:25.way of getting like minds together. When they first come, some are quite
:12:26. > :12:29.reserved and they try to do other sports and don't do as well, but
:12:30. > :12:33.coming with those first steps in breaking the ice and having a sense
:12:34. > :12:37.of belonging, somebody belonging to a club that they can relate to, it's
:12:38. > :12:42.grown so much and the members have grown so much in confidence and
:12:43. > :12:47.become their own people. And, as you can see, they are pretty good at it!
:12:48. > :12:51.Last year, the Lancashire cup in Lions finished second in the blind
:12:52. > :12:56.league for the second year in a row and made it to the blind sports
:12:57. > :13:06.final. The team is mixed. Male and female. It's made up of all ages,
:13:07. > :13:07.from 11 to 64. Saleem has been playing for two seasons for them and
:13:08. > :13:13.is now training the England blind is now training the England blind
:13:14. > :13:20.development squad. Keen cricket player? I actually don't like
:13:21. > :13:25.cricket! Funnily enough! How come you got involved with the Lions,
:13:26. > :13:28.then? Is because I'm eager to get involved in competitive sport.
:13:29. > :13:32.didn't know what to do, so coming didn't know what to do, so coming
:13:33. > :13:35.along here gives me an opportunity to play competitive sport, but apart
:13:36. > :13:39.from that, is the opportunity to meet new people. He and his younger
:13:40. > :13:43.sister Nadia were born with a genetic site condition. It
:13:44. > :13:47.degenerative, causing them to lose degenerative, causing them to lose
:13:48. > :13:51.Van Gogh has any sight in his left Van Gogh has any sight in his left
:13:52. > :13:58.eye and only limited vision in his right. -- he no longer has any
:13:59. > :14:01.sight. A lot of people with people have tunnel vision as well as night
:14:02. > :14:04.blindness, and does the condition gets worse, their central vision
:14:05. > :14:12.starts to go and leaves you totally blind. I had to deal with things,
:14:13. > :14:16.OK, my site is going, and it's a question of accepting it or falling
:14:17. > :14:21.it into, I guess, depression. -- my sight. I didn't have role models but
:14:22. > :14:25.claim to know what would happen so I had to bite the bullet, live my life
:14:26. > :14:30.and, you know, I lived by this motto that I might be blind but I have a
:14:31. > :14:35.vision, and if I can just carry on living my life, inspiring people.
:14:36. > :14:39.Which is what he does. As well as being an excellent cricketer and
:14:40. > :14:46.all-round sportsman, he is a very good musician. And he writes his own
:14:47. > :14:54.blog, the aptly named Blind Journalist. I think my blog played a
:14:55. > :14:59.big impact, because again, it was a platform for me to portray the work
:15:00. > :15:06.I've done, and now I'm currently working at BBC radio Manchester. I
:15:07. > :15:12.want to work at Northwest tonight. It's a scheme where you get to work
:15:13. > :15:12.all over the BBC and become a multi-platform journalist. Sport
:15:13. > :15:16.plays a big role in all of the lives plays a big role in all of the lives
:15:17. > :15:24.of the men here, but nowhere more so than in the lives -- the life of
:15:25. > :15:28.Amelia. I got a phone call saying, would you like to come and play for
:15:29. > :15:35.us? And I was over the moon because I just couldn't wait to go and play
:15:36. > :15:40.for cricket, because I had never been able to play cricket because I
:15:41. > :15:48.would just miss every shot when the ball came. But I was actually
:15:49. > :15:57.managing to hit the ball doing it this way and it gave me a good
:15:58. > :16:01.feeling. I like the cricket itself. But I also like the people and
:16:02. > :16:06.playing with because they are so nice and so supportive of you.
:16:07. > :16:11.Amelia's mum and dad believed playing sport has helped her
:16:12. > :16:16.confidence. She loves it. She's a different child when she is doing
:16:17. > :16:20.it. She gets such a buzz from it, doesn't she? She does. I couldn't
:16:21. > :16:25.really imagine her... How she would be if she didn't have it. And
:16:26. > :16:31.actually feels that she can play the game very well with other people who
:16:32. > :16:35.are visually impaired, whereas I think before she thought, I'm not
:16:36. > :16:40.properly. And it's changed around properly. And it's changed around
:16:41. > :16:55.that she's thinking, I can be, I can do well. And she doesn't just stop
:16:56. > :16:59.at cricket. At his school -- her school, Amelia joined in with all
:17:00. > :17:02.the other children. Apart from Amelia, every other girl can see
:17:03. > :17:06.perfectly well and you probably couldn't tell the difference with
:17:07. > :17:17.her being there. She's as able as anybody else. If you really try then
:17:18. > :17:22.you can go far. So... Like me. I want to be in the Paralympics. So
:17:23. > :17:29.that's where I'm going to want to get. Now, listen, I've been watching
:17:30. > :17:33.you play. I'm no good at cricket at the best of times and I'll have a go
:17:34. > :17:45.in it. Give me some advice, some tips. Just listen carefully and try
:17:46. > :17:49.to hit the ball! Thanks for that(!) When you hit the ball, try to see if
:17:50. > :17:55.there's spaces between any of the players fielding. OK, all right. But
:17:56. > :18:02.how can I do that? Because I'll be blindfolded. You can ask them to
:18:03. > :18:09.give you a clap. OK, so before I have a go, I get everyone to clap
:18:10. > :18:16.and so I know where they are. Thanks for that. Top piece of advice. I
:18:17. > :18:20.actually find this whole experience utterly humbling. Completely
:18:21. > :18:25.uplifting. But at the same time, quite distressing, because about
:18:26. > :18:27.three years ago, I had a freak accident and after a
:18:28. > :18:30.desperate operations, the eyesight desperate operations, the eyesight
:18:31. > :18:36.in my left eye deteriorated until in the end it's just nothing, so if I
:18:37. > :18:39.close my right eye, I am in their world. I can see nothing at all. But
:18:40. > :18:46.to see these guys, and I thought I to see these guys, and I thought I
:18:47. > :18:51.went for a bad time, to see these guys being so positive, what an
:18:52. > :18:56.amazing group of people. Well, I guess it's my turn now, isn't it? As
:18:57. > :19:04.I say, I'll have to close one eye and put the blindfold on. And
:19:05. > :19:09.humiliate myself! Here I go! Collide have a clap just in case I do find a
:19:10. > :19:23.gap? Can we have some clapping? OK, yeah. That didn't help at all!
:19:24. > :19:33.Thanks very much(!) OK... Ha-ha! Right, I give up! Thanks! Brilliant,
:19:34. > :19:38.that! Cheers. Brilliant. Honestly, I was never any good at cricket anyway
:19:39. > :19:44.and I can tell you that is just simply impossible! How they play
:19:45. > :19:48.that game is beyond me. Amazing. Amazing testimony to the skill
:19:49. > :19:50.involved there. Incredible. I don't think they're going to call me next
:19:51. > :19:58.week! It's the Chinese Year
:19:59. > :20:01.of the Rooster, and if you've been out and about in recent weeks,
:20:02. > :20:03.you'll have seen the posters They were designed by the Manchester
:20:04. > :20:06.illustrator Stan Chow, whose work is in demand
:20:07. > :20:18.across the globe. Stan Chow is famed for his
:20:19. > :20:21.distinctive two-dimensional illustrations which grace walls
:20:22. > :20:23.and magazine covers Closer to home, they're featured
:20:24. > :20:30.on Manchester's Metrolink network and promote
:20:31. > :20:37.the Chinese New Year celebrations. When I'm going round Manchester
:20:38. > :20:40.with my kids and they spot my work, they're like, "Daddy,
:20:41. > :20:45.did you do that?" and I say, "Yeah, I did,"
:20:46. > :20:48.and there's work that I did that they will just recognise cos
:20:49. > :20:50.it's my style. I'm thrilled to be doing
:20:51. > :20:53.the Chinese New Year stuff and thrilled to be doing
:20:54. > :20:56.stuff for Manchester. Stan is first-generation
:20:57. > :20:59.British Chinese. His parents came over from Hong Kong
:21:00. > :21:03.to work in the catering trade. My dad came over to England
:21:04. > :21:10.in the late '50s and worked in a restaurant in Halifax,
:21:11. > :21:13.and then moved to Alderley Edge I'd be sat in the back with the chip
:21:14. > :21:23.paper in the back and I'd I don't remember having any toys cos
:21:24. > :21:30.we weren't that well-off. So basically my toy
:21:31. > :21:34.was just drawing pictures. When I was growing up, I was
:21:35. > :21:38.the only Chinese boy in the town. In the suburbs it was
:21:39. > :21:40.hard being Chinese. I was subjected to
:21:41. > :21:45.certain types of racism. There were four or five kids
:21:46. > :21:54.who would do the slanty-eyed stuff and there was kind of you just
:21:55. > :21:58.accepted it, to a certain degree. And I used to go to school
:21:59. > :22:01.with my packed lunch and my mum would give me my lunch in a Chinese
:22:02. > :22:07.supermarket carrier bag, and that used to freak me out loads
:22:08. > :22:10.cos I don't want to be Chinese, I want to be English,
:22:11. > :22:19.cos everyone else is English, and that's pretty much how I felt
:22:20. > :22:22.during my school years. But Stan is now fiercely proud
:22:23. > :22:24.of his Chinese heritage and his childhood memories
:22:25. > :22:27.are the inspiration for an exhibition of his work
:22:28. > :22:30.at Manchester's Centre For Chinese My favourite one, I would say,
:22:31. > :22:39.is the fried dace one. It's basically cans of fried
:22:40. > :22:41.fish, and that was my I've hash-tagged it "food
:22:42. > :22:45.of the gods", and I used to eat that a lot when I was a child,
:22:46. > :22:48.so I thought that was I've done me as a banana, cos
:22:49. > :22:57.basically, when I was growing up, when I met other Chinese friends
:22:58. > :23:01.or going back to Hong Kong they'll always describe me as a banana boy ?
:23:02. > :23:04.white on the inside and yellow I see myself as more
:23:05. > :23:10.English than Chinese, so they have a case in calling me
:23:11. > :23:15.a banana boy, really! You know, and when it comes
:23:16. > :23:21.to football or sport, even though it's important,
:23:22. > :23:28.it's secondary and I see myself Stan's distinctive 2D style evolved
:23:29. > :23:42.after he'd finished art college. His dad, with an eye to the future,
:23:43. > :23:45.bought him a computer, and swapping his pencil for mouse,
:23:46. > :24:07.Stan learnt to draw digitally. Much of his work is of sports stars,
:24:08. > :24:10.inspired by the Panini Collecting football
:24:11. > :24:15.stickers was my life blood. And when I started to
:24:16. > :24:25.do my illustrations, I just wanted to portray that
:24:26. > :24:33.simplicity of the head shot, and at the time,
:24:34. > :24:37.when I started doing my style, no-one was really illustrating
:24:38. > :24:39.like that, so I guess I kind of made them my own,
:24:40. > :24:42.really, to kind of Hotel Football have got all my work
:24:43. > :24:47.in there in their space and it's great that Gary Neville
:24:48. > :24:51.and his mates like my stuff enough But Stan's big break came
:24:52. > :24:55.from an unusual source. American band The White Stripes
:24:56. > :24:57.spotted a bootleg poster Stan had designed for one of their gigs
:24:58. > :25:10.and got in touch. which were loaded with the album on,
:25:11. > :25:14.and these got nominated for Best Packaging in the 2008
:25:15. > :25:18.Grammy Awards, and that was it - Stan had broken into the American
:25:19. > :25:30.market and was soon illustrating for the prestigious
:25:31. > :25:36.New Yorker magazine. All the best artists tend to end
:25:37. > :25:39.up in the New Yorker, and when you're growing up looking
:25:40. > :25:41.through illustration annuals, all your favourite artists seem
:25:42. > :25:44.to work for the New Yorker. And that's something that I felt
:25:45. > :25:46.like I should strive for. And then actually being in it,
:25:47. > :25:49.I was like, "Woah! And then from being in
:25:50. > :25:58.the New Yorker, I ended up being in Time magazine
:25:59. > :26:01.and the New York Times and the Wall St Journal
:26:02. > :26:04.and stuff like that, so just from this bootleg poster
:26:05. > :26:08.for The White Stripes, it's opened up a whole new door
:26:09. > :26:15.for me, a whole new world. Stan landed his most
:26:16. > :26:18.prestigious commission yet - the front page of the New York Times
:26:19. > :26:21.- with his illustration of Donald Trump, at the height
:26:22. > :26:26.of the Presidential campaign. We had this idea for Donald Trump
:26:27. > :26:29.on a hot air balloon. The thing about Donald Trump
:26:30. > :26:37.is that he's got a very kind of chameleon face,
:26:38. > :26:39.you know, and for me, I struggled with him a bit
:26:40. > :26:44.but I think I finally got him. You look at a picture
:26:45. > :26:47.of Donald Trump and he seems to look And the way I illustrate things,
:26:48. > :26:53.I make them as expressionless as possible, so I'm trying to cut
:26:54. > :26:57.out all the expression, and I finally got there
:26:58. > :27:02.but he was tricky to do. Stan sells his prints all over
:27:03. > :27:05.the world and believes art should I don't want to limit it to rich
:27:06. > :27:13.people who can only have their art. It means the student who's a fan
:27:14. > :27:19.of my work can buy a print cheaply. ?20 is pretty reasonably
:27:20. > :27:22.priced, if you ask me. From chip paper to the New York
:27:23. > :27:26.Times, Stan has come a long way and sees himself not just as a role
:27:27. > :27:29.model for Chinese kids In terms of Chinese role models,
:27:30. > :27:37.all I had was Bruce Lee. It wasn't just Chinese
:27:38. > :27:40.guys who liked him - everyone liked him, and I think
:27:41. > :27:45.that was really important. That he crossed over
:27:46. > :27:49.from being Chinese and then actually being a success among the Western
:27:50. > :27:55.white world is fantastic, and that's something that there's
:27:56. > :28:02.probably not enough of in society now, so if I'm a role model
:28:03. > :28:29.for anyone, then that's great. I am sure we'll be seeing a lot more
:28:30. > :28:36.of his work. That's all from us for this week. See you next week.
:28:37. > :28:41.Goodbye. Have you got cannabis in there by
:28:42. > :28:43.any chance? Next week, we investigate the growing number of
:28:44. > :28:48.people driving under the influence of drugs. They could potentially go
:28:49. > :28:51.to prison. They'll lose their job, their license and they just don't
:28:52. > :28:54.think about this before they go out on the road.