Savita Halappanavar- the thread to actually talk about the case

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Away from the madness of the other thread.

Belfast Telegraph tonight has an interview with a woman who was in a very similar situation in the Royal Victoria Hospital in 1990 and only survived because her husband put up a massive fight for medical staff to induce. Staff at the time said they could not legally authorise an abortion even though there was no chance for the baby at 17 to 19 weeks. She was showing signs of infection and only after her husband brought in their 2 year old SN child and basically screamed the place down that this child needed his mother was she given treatment. She just about made it.

verylittlecarrot you're right not to be repentant, you were right. I'm amazed I wasn't deleted too, given my response to your deleted post.

madwoman I just hope Savita's husband doesn't feel he could have saved his wife if he had screamed the place down .

And the original Hippocratic Oath dates back to before Christianity, medicine has moved on since then. The oath is not relevant in and of itself. The principle of medical practice should be 'First do no harm'. Going by that principle, the doctors treating Savita failed dismally in their duty of care.

An estimated 20,000 people marched through Dublin this afternoon in protest.

Very glad to hear it. Hope the politicians and medical profession were listening.

What was done to that woman was pure evil.