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.
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.
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)
“Either way she had an illegal abortion and it killed her.”
No, medical incompetence is what killed her:
“When, on Oct. 23, Halappanavar and her husband, Praveen, asked about medically inducing the miscarriage instead of delaying the inevitable, a doctor told them: “Under Irish law, if there’s no evidence of risk to the life of the mother, our hands are tied so long as there’s a fetal heart[beat],” the official report said.”
Yet she was told this AFTER the water had broke and she was in “unbearable” pain, so there clearly was some risk to her life, the doctors just didn’t make the correct decision.