Savita Halappanavar's widower condemns 'barbaric and inhuman care'
Source: The Guardian
The widower of Savita Halappanavar – the 31-year-old dentist who has become an international symbol for those opposed to Ireland's strict anti-abortion laws – has condemned the "barbaric and inhuman care" she received in hospital, as an inquest ruled that she had died from medical misadventure.
The jury returned its verdict – on the day Savita and Praveen Halappanavar should have been celebrating their wedding anniversary. The Indian couple married five years ago.
Praveen Halappanavar said after the verdict that he had yet to find out properly why his wife had died. He said he had pleaded with medical staff at Galway university hospital for his wife to be given an emergency termination to save her life. She died in October last year of septic shock and E coli in her bloodstream after a miscarriage.
The coroner said the verdict did not imply that failings in systems at the hospital caused her death. However, speaking outside the inquest, Praveen Halappanavar said: "The care she received was no different from if she had stayed at home … She was just left there to die."
Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/apr/19/savita-abortion-widower-barbaric-hospital
How "pro-life" was THAT????
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(or inaction) can result in death of a person, where your duty is to protect their life should carry a much stricter sentence.
Those "doctors" bloody well knew the risks but did absolutely nothing to save this poor woman because "the law" wouldn't allow them to perform abortion? That's the same as "I was just following my orders". 
Sorry, not trying to argue with you. I am just totally pissed off those fuckers are allowed to walk away like that poor woman's life did not and still doesn't matter.
is WHY Savita died.
they call it, "medical misadventure"? I have never heard of anything so cravenly false and uttered with the seriousness of a government lackey granted the power to enforce sadism. And this is the national norm? Thank you, State sponsored religion. 
This is why Women's lives must be valued first. For real valued; not P.C. sounding progressive liberal buzz word slogans, but valued, as in, identified with---for real, from the heart kind of valued.
As in, actually stopping and wondering enough, just for a moment, to try putting yourself in that woman's shoes for 5 minutes.
Imagine for a moment that it's happening to you--particularly if you are not ovary-endowed--and give yourself a moment to try feeling what that would be like. How would you respond, if it were you?
