Posts Tagged ‘Galway University Hospital’

Denied abortion not cause of death, Irish inquest finds

Friday, May 3rd, 2013

An Irish inquest into the death of a woman who was refused an abortion — a case that ignited demands to liberalise the country’s abortion laws — has revealed she died of an undiagnosed infection, not from being denied an abortion. Savita Halappanavar, a 31-year-old Indian dentist, died in Galway University Hospital last October, a Read more

Bishops respond to protests over Irish abortion law

Friday, November 23rd, 2012

While protesters in Ireland and India rally against the Irish abortion law following the death of a Hindu woman who was refused an abortion, Ireland’s Catholic bishops have affirmed that the Catholic Church “has never taught that the life of a child in the womb should be preferred to that of a mother”. The protests Read more