An MP has said The Handmaid' Tale is "not a dystopia" and that similar situations to the feminist television show are happening in the UK.

In the series, women are enslaved and forced to become pregnant, held captive because of their fertility and gender.

Jess Phillips, who used to work for a domestic violence charity told harrowing stories about women "kept captive" by pregnancy in a bid to convince Parliament to vote for free abortions for Northern Irish women.