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17-week pregnant Indian migrant woman, Savita, was killed because she was denied access to an abortion that would have saved her life.
She developed blood poisoning due to miscarrying but when Her and Praveen (husband) begged Galway University Hospital to grant an abortion as her health was rapidly fading, doctors denied and told them ‘this is a catholic country’.
HuffingtonPost: He said his wife vomited repeatedly and collapsed in a restroom that night, but doctors wouldn’t terminate the fetus because its heart was still beating.
When the fetus’s heart stopped beating that was when the fucking doctors surgically removed the remains but it was too late; Savita died a couple of days later.
This is the country I live in. This country says women can only have abortions if their life literally depends on it but women are still being denied an abortion any fucking way. This is the same country that also a while ago, forced a terminally ill woman to travel all the way to the UK to have an abortion because Ireland is too fucking cowardly to allow her abortion here.
Please please please contact the Irish embassy in your country and let them know what a disgusting disgrace it is that people are denied abortions here. Enough with the bullshit stereotype that Ireland is welcoming and sweet-natured; this country prefers people to die rather than have even a life-saving abortion.
im very proud to be of irish descent and would love to visit the family i have over there one day, but the fact that this is something that can happen scares the hell out of me
Jesus, when the baby is almost dead, IT IS ALMOST DEAD! Do you think it would have wanted to drag his/her mother along? Do they really think that?!
This is sick. If this is “catholic” then catholic lost all positive connotation.
[Trigger Warning: Miscarriage] Tennessee passes bill that any miscarriage or killing of a fertilized egg murder.
Speechless. Nothing can describe the anger and shock. HOW?
Does this mean my mom is a murderer because of her two miscarriages?
…….Thanks, Tennessee. I’m not even a resident and you’re making me hurt even more about the loss of my child.
This isn’t about Pro-Life anymore.
This is all out war on women.
What the f….
Actually, this is not a “War on Women;” not in any way, shape, or form.
This is a war against people who can become pregnant: Trans Men and Non-binaries included.
Not just “women,” unless you’re being a cissexist fuck.
Thank you, I fully meant to add that until I got caught up ranting over it with a friend before I reblogged it.
What world-of-whit said.
(Source: yourfalsealarms)
After consulting with Doctors, Danielle and her husband decided that it would be more humane to terminate the pregnancy than allow the fetus to be born, only to die shortly thereafter. Attorneys, however, informed her that this wasn’t possible:
After consulting attorneys, doctors told Deaver and her husband that the Nebraska law prohibited an abortion in their case. She had to wait, give birth, and watch the infant die.
The result?
Nebraska’s new abortion law forced Danielle Deaver to live through ten excruciating days, waiting to give birth to a baby that she and her doctors knew would die minutes later, fighting for breath that would not come. And that’s what happened. The one-pound, ten-ounce girl, Elizabeth, was born December 8th. Deaver and husband Robb watched, held and comforted the baby as it gasped for air, hoping she was not suffering. She died 15 minutes later.
To give you some grounding info, the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists has stated that there is zero evidence that a fetus can feel pain at 20 weeks of gestation, and notes that there is no legitimate evidence demonstrating that a fetus can feel pain in the weeks thereafter.
But if we assume arguendo that a fetus can feel pain, then that means that the fetus experienced more pain during the 10 days it was being crushed to death by Danielle Deaver’s uterus (as a result of not having an amniotic sac to cushion its body), than it ever would have if the pregnancy had been terminated shortly after Danielle’s water broke. The law caused more harm than it alleviated underneath its own premise.
Letters To My Country: More Scenes From The War On Women. Read more at the link. (via pantslessprogressive)
Not to mention how much more fucking trauma it caused the parents.
