Expert: Savita Could Have Lived
Updated: 6:31pm UK, Friday 19 April 2013
By David Blevins, Ireland Correspondent
Five times in 30 years, Ireland has voted on abortion. The tragic death of Savita Halappanavar has forced the country to search its soul once more on the emotive issue.
The 29-year-old dentist, a popular member of Galway's Indian community, died in the city's University Hospital last October. Her husband claimed doctors had refused to terminate her pregnancy.
For seven days, Praveen Halappanavar has listened to harrowing evidence at the inquest into his wife's death. He said he felt her presence with him on his quest for justice.
Mr Halappanavar told jurors Savita had wept "tears of happiness" over her pregnancy but claimed she requested an abortion three times when doctors discovered she was miscarrying at 17 weeks.
Ann Maria Burke, a midwife, has apologised for telling Mrs Halapannavar she could not have a termination "because Ireland is a Catholic country", insisting she did not mean to "offend."
Expert witness Dr Peter Boylan, a former master at Ireland's National Maternity Hospital in Dublin, said Savita would "on the balance of probabilities" still be alive if granted a termination.
Abortion remains illegal in Ireland unless there is a threat to the mother's life, not just her health. Doctors have to wait until she is dangerously ill before terminating a pregnancy.
Despite a Supreme Court ruling in 1992, the Irish government has never legislated for termination when the mother's life is at risk but is expected to do so this summer.
Pro-choice groups are campaigning for the threat of suicide to be included but this seems unlikely, much to the relief of pro-life groups. The split is reflected on the streets.
The younger women Sky News spoke to were keen to see the law changed, but an elderly lady disagreed: "In all these things, God knows best and it works like that."
Dearbhla Geraghty from the Connaught Tribune senses change: "I felt I was witnessing history being made when Dr Peter Boylan said she would have survived had the law been different."
Had things gone to plan, Praveen Halapannavar would be the father of a two-week-old daughter. Instead, he mourns the wife he loved and the child they yearned for.
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