Posted on 07/05/2022 2:19:59 PM PDT by Morgana
After the Supreme Court’s historic decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, some doctors are highlighting the 2012 death of a pregnant woman in Ireland and warning that the same thing could happen on a large scale in the United States.
Dr. Savita Halappanavar, a 31-year-old Indian-born dentist, died in 2012 in Galway, on Ireland’s west coast, after she was denied an abortion by doctors who cited the country’s strict laws, despite there being no chance of her baby’s survival, according to Ireland’s official report on the case.
Her death shook the foundations of the traditionally conservative and predominantly Roman Catholic country, and catalyzed its pro-abortion rights movement. In a 2018 referendum, Irish people voted by a two-thirds majority to legalize the procedure.
The avoidable death of Halappanavar, who was 17 weeks pregnant, proved that doctors — not politicians, police and judges — should help decide the best course of action in similar cases, according to Dr. Sabaratnam Arulkumaran, the expert who in 2013 wrote the official report on the case.
“That’s why Biden said that the issue should be between the patient and the doctor, rather than with the law,” he told NBC News by phone, referring to President Joe Biden’s speech reacting to Roe v. Wade’s reversal June 24.
In Halappanavar’s case, doctors opted against an abortion because the fetus had a heart rate and anyone carrying out a termination could theoretically have been prosecuted at a later date.
“Because the fetal heart rate was present all the time, the obstetrician did not do a termination. If someone decided that she had done it illegally, she would have gone to jail,” he said, referring to the doctor attending on Halappanavar.
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Pregnancy is not a cancer cell to be extracted. Pregnancy does come to an end. Pregnancy can also be prevented. To hear them talk one would think pregnancy was contracted like COVID.
What’s Ireland got to do with RvW - in the US we still can get an abortion in states that allow it.
The woman in this story was East Indian. If I’m reading the story correctly she went to Ireland? Either way she had an illegal abortion and it killed her.
Hasn’t the health of the mother always been recognized everywhere as a controlling factor for abortion?
My eldest sister went to California to have an abortion (before RvW). She was 17. The quack who preformed the procedure damn near killed her in the process. She had to have a full hysterectomy as a result and she has carried that and all the accompanying baggage with her for all of these years.
I continue to pray for her.
Yet, it happens all of the time.
Prayers.
(What’s Ireland got to do with RvW)
Hey, don’t be using FACTS and getting in the way of the liberals’ propaganda!!
C’mon man!!
What was the health of the mother in this case?
Thank you.
If one can trust Wiki she had extreme discomfort and was admitted to the hospital.
A miscarriage was declared unavoidable. She developed sepsis during the spell and died of a heart attack.
I’ll have to read it again.
A miscarriage is NOT an abortion.
Also, the pro-aborts will fight tooth and nail to prevent any efforts to have abortion clinics held to basic medical standards.
We’re really short on some information. You’re quite correct. They really don’t tell us what she died of and or even when...but I didn’t read it carefully.
Had to go back 10 years and cross an ocean to find an example of the horror of abortion ban.
On 21 October 2012, Halappanavar, then 17 weeks pregnant, was examined at University Hospital Galway after complaining of back pain, but was soon discharged without a diagnosis. She returned to the hospital later that day, this time complaining of lower pressure, a sensation she described as feeling “something coming down”, and a subsequent examination found that the gestational sac was protruding from her body. She was admitted to hospital, as it was determined that miscarriage was unavoidable, and several hours later, just after midnight on 22 October, her water broke but did not expel the fetus.[8]: 22–26 [8]: 29 [9] The following day, on 23 October, Halappanavar discussed abortion with her consulting physician but her request was promptly refused, as Irish law at that time forbade abortion if a fetal heartbeat was still present.[8]: 33 [10] Afterwards, Halappanavar developed sepsis and, despite doctors’ efforts to treat her, had a cardiac arrest at 1:09 AM on 28 October, at the age of 31, and died.
(What Wikipedia says anyways)
It was a money-making venue and they really didn't care about the health or choices of the women they were supposed to be suing. For those on the fence, things changed when the general public became aware of the protocol of a late-term abortion and selling the embryonic tissue was the final straw for many.
It sounds to me that the doctors killed her through their own incompetence.
The doctors killed her.
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