A tragic death of Savita Halappanavar happened
because she was denied the right to have an abortion in Ireland. Halappanavar was thirty one and she was
seventeen months pregnant. Ireland has
strict abortion laws and will only allow an abortion under specific
circumstances. On October 21st
Savita went into the hospital complaining of extreme back pain that wouldn’t go
away. The doctors at the hospital just
told her she was experiencing a miscarriage and to basically let it pass within
the continuing hours. But Savita and her
husband wanted to have an abortion because they pain was that unbearable but
because of the abortion laws the medical staff was denying her that
choice. But the hours kept passing and
nothing but more pain was happening to Savita.
Her husband was at her side the whole time and nothing was making sense
to him if the doctors knew the baby wasn’t going to make it why not put his
wife out of this pain and have it be finish quicker? But the staff told them as long as a
heartbeat is still occurring from the baby the abortion laws forbid them to do
anything. But after three days of being
in the hospital Savita died of a blood infection called septicemia. This led to many people being hurt and upset
and has led to protests to change the abortion laws. The abortion law in Ireland did state the
abortion could be legal if the mother’s life was at risk so then why was this
situation any different? This tragic
death of Savita has led to an investigation that is continuing. One staff member did tell the couple that
Catholic laws in Ireland forbade abortion.
But Savita and her husband aren’t Catholic so why must non- Catholics
have to follow this law in Ireland?
http://www.cnn.com/2012/11/14/world/europe/ireland-abortion-controversy/index.html?hpt=he_c2
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