17-week pregnant woman dies in Irish hospital after doctors refuse termination

Not long ago, a woman in AZ was admitted to a Catholic hospital who was going to die if the pregnancy wasn't terminated - which would mean that the fetus would also die. The nun in charge sensibly ordered that the pregnancy be terminated, and it was. For this, her bishop excommunicated the nun and ruled the hospital no longer Catholic. It seems that the church is becoming MORE fanatic about this, not less.

Nice one, WoundedKnee. Another opportunity to air your xenophobia. The woman's religion has nothing to do with what happened, but never let the facts get in the way of an attack on those you fear. What about kicking those Irish immigrants out of America while you're at it?

Cal_lan your argument in your last post is irrelevant to the article above.Howareya the church h believes the birth of the child is paramount.what the doctors did(or failed to do)in Galway is murdering a young woman to satisfy their religious beliefs

I have to laugh at the bigots here who whine about Catholicism being backward or obscurantist. The lady who died tragically was apparently a HINDHU. These folks believe in reincarnation, that after death we come back again and again, be it as a human or an animal. I sneer at no religion, but is this supposed to be more rational than Christianity? And I think that Cillowen's post below is on the money, tho I would not use his/her language. The fact is that the Irish ruling class opened up the country to Mass Immigration from countless countries and cultures, yet never made the slightest effort to think thru what was likely to happen. And it'll get worse.

Calon_Lan Have you no shame? You know full well that the young woman contracted septicaemia due to the 72-hour dilation which could have been prevented. Shame on you.

I am not in favor of abortion but this underscores my contention that the majority of the Irish population live in the dark ages.

I find the nitpicking around this story below to be stomach churning. This women died because of Catholic religion rules that hobble Catholic hospitals in Ireland and in the rest of the world.

I agree with Calon_Lan. I believe the Church has no issue with terminating a pregnancy when the mother's life is in danger. This was a grave lack of judgetment on the medical staff and they should be punished. RIP and prayers for the poor woman and her husband. And Rose, in a normal pregnancy, it is no longer just the womans body..there is a childs body in there too!

rose528, I was working in an office everal years back when a young woman no older than 25 years of age came in in a very distressed state who started shouting incomprehensibly about (we subsequently found out ) her housing conditions. Staff tried to calm her down but to no avail. She then took out a knife and cut both her arms from wrist to elbow. Two of us jumped on her and managed to stem the bloodflow before the ambulance got there to take her to hospital where I am happy to say she survived. Do you think we were right to intervene?

HermitTalker I see you came out of hiding. What a pity you didn't display a little bit of your famed humility instead of using this poor woman's tragedy to advance your agenda. By the way, you never did answer the question -- are you, or are you not a retired cleric?

all I see is man has again put himself above women and said she has no control over her own body only man does. Religion should have no say in what happens. Religion should have no say in laws. What is one woman's religion is another woman's demon. NO one from doctors to legislators has a right to tell a woman what she can do with her body,

"bignervermo" Which part of "An abortion wouldn't have saved this woman's life" don't you understand?This woman died form septicaemia - blood poisoning. As has been pointed out the law does allow for direct intervention which looks in this case as it should have undertaken. So don't get abusive when your ignorance gets the better of you. No I don't think rape is God's will at all but this case isn't about me it's about misinformation being treated as the truth. Comprende my good friend?

Calon...you didnt set anything straight...This woman dies in agony...who cares about your stats??? This woman died because they would not abort a dying fetus for Jebus sake! WTH??? Why would anyone say that this man was correct? BECAUSE HE LIVED IT YA JACKWAGON! Hey but you probably think that if a raped woman gets pregnant that is Gods will right?

Its already in our law that a medical abortion should have been carried out in event the miscarrying child is causing serious ill health/risk to the mother. However the doctors for whatever reason didn't have a clue regarding this. I personally don't agree with abortion, but in a case such as this there was no reason for them not to. I would hate to see it legalised in our country just to be used as flippant as the morning after pill. I know there are cases It wont be, but far too many where it would. If they just straightened out our laws to actually be of benefit to us, the doctors could have made the right decision based on the situation not on religion and that mother could been alive to grieve her loss, not her husband to greive both losses. Trying to save one life by killing two is not the answer and knowing one was already at deaths door..very sad. Peace Be upon them both

This is a good reason for US companies not to do business in Ireland. Now that it is known that the lives of their spouses will be put at risk, every company will be legally liable for anything that happens in the future.