Similar death to Savita Halappanavar ignored in the mainstream media

"These views are given in his private capacity." What the hell does that mean? Who else could the columnist be speaking for? Or does this mean that in every other article on IC in which no such disclaimer is given that the columnists are speaking for someone else? Who? Are they speaking for O'Dowd?

This lack of medical care and the further lack of justice is common in Ireland. The land of Saints, Scholars and puppets. By the way Sligo general hospital is no worse than most gerneral hospitals. The law suits are against the Health Service Executive (Fancy name for a bunch of over-paid bureaucrats) and the taxpayers will foot the bill, as usual.

Sligo Regional of all Hospitals..... his is one hospital in Ireland that has malpractice suits coming out from every orifice..... Ireland has a lot of good doctors, but unfortunately also a lot of bad ones, including an enormous amount of "third world" docs who can hardly speak English. And Sligo Regional has its share. This has nothing to do with liberal media , please ask your editor to find the facts before making unsubstantiated comments. It used to be that reporters had a duty to check and verify the facts with three independent sources before claiming the "truth". You guys from the Irish Central are no better than the sun by now.

I'm glad IC has a disclaimer at the end of this article.

I can assure you this was never reported on any media much the pity as an other women could have been spared.but its nothing new for information to be hidden in Ireland. The fact that this lady died in Belfast would come under the heading not our business as she died in an other jurisdiction namely Belfast.now the same people would like you to travel around the world for the gathering by all means come but dont be pregnant as it appears no one is responsible.we in Ireland are at a loss as to how this is happening our sorrow for all concerned goes without saying.

Savita died for the cause. The doctors and nurses who treated her were only proving a point. They want abortion on demand in Ireland. Once it was determined that Savita's life was in such peril, the medical team should have induced birth and let nature take its course. NO ONE in their right mind would argue with that plan, except the pro-abortion crowd and the liberal media of Ireland. If the medical team says their hands were tied, they are lying through their teeth. Those doctors and nurses should have their licenses revoked.

I agree with olovely. This editorial is fact-deficient wishful thinking. The tragedy is that Savita died; the outrage is that she died without the doctors trying to save her; the inhumanity is that they refused to save her so that they could prolong the life (actually the dying) of a fetus they knew they could not save. The outcry over Savita's death, which was almost certainly due to sepsis, was motivated by knowledge, by the FACT that in developed countries that boast adequate health care, hospitals follow standard procedures in such cases as hers, with the exception of Catholic hospitals and apparently the Catholic doctors of the Galway hospital. The failure of the Galway physicians to provide the universally accepted emergency procedures was wrong beyond doubt, and it was wrong even if she would have died anyway.

The person who wrote this article is, there is no other term for this, a deranged fundamentalist. I had to read it twice to believe my eyes over the claims he makes here. If reality doesn't support your views you don't in fact have the right to create your own alternate reality.