| inbluevt | Date: Wednesday, 2013/05/01, 9:23 PM | Message # 1 | DMCA |
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An unprecedented surge of public anger in the wake of the death of Savita Halappanavar, an Indian dentist living in
Galway, now seems to have made it inevitable that politicians in Dublin
will be forced to ease restrictions on abortion in the Irish Republic.
Ten thousand protesters marched through the capital yesterday, chanting
"never again", before holding a minute's silence and a candle-lit vigil
outside Prime Minister Enda Kenny's offices.
Outrage has swept the country after Mrs Halappanavar's death in a Galway hospital from blood poisoning following a miscarriage at 17 weeks. Her
husband, Praveen, said she deteriorated after being repeatedly refused a
termination of her pregnancy, even though her baby was not viable.
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