there is an irreversible change she says this fight is even more important than the cinema that flows through my veinschumaporn taengkliang known as dao once smuggled 10000 abortion pills from china into the kingdom where the drugs were not widely availableseven years later she is a frequent presence at protests calling for the decriminalisation of abortion and the legalisation of sex workabortion is legal in thailand but restricted except in specific cases such as rape or when the womans health is threatened otherwise women can be prosecuted and jailed for three yearsits archaic says dao who welcomes recent news that the government is working on decriminalising abortion even though we have to go much further to really protect womenthe 34yearold has also risked criminal charges by criticising the king who last year became the first thai monarch to grant himself an official consort in nearly a centurydao grew up in thailands south to a conservative family where domestic violence was normal and knew from the age of 12 that she had to fight against all thisshe urges other prodemocracy leaders many of them men let us make ourselves heard more we will never stay in the back seat again we will always be in the front line