Tragic Savita’s husband calls on Irish government to change the law

@Kmairint, Ireland has a low infant/maternal mortality rate only because Irish law exports problem pregnancies to be dealt with elsewhere, usually in the UK, usually by prompt medical abortion. How many Irish women die in UK hospitals because they cannot obtain timely treatment in Ireland for conditions such as Savita suffered at a point in her pregnancy when the foetus could not survive? So please stop traipsing out your distortion-- a lie, really!-- that Irish health care is greatly successful in dealing with pregnancy. Savita's case is clear evidence that Irish health care allows pregnant women to die because medical staff refuse to end miscarried pregnancies in Irish hospitals, where they consider the beating heart of a doomed foetus to be reason enough to abandon a pregnant woman to the ravages of a killing infection.

How could any man, mourning the death of his wife, want to further the tragedy by spreading the deliberate killing of innocent babies into a country with the lowest infant/ mother mortality rate. There is nothing natural about wanting to have an open season on the lives of children in the womb. It is not natural that a mother or father should want to have their child killed - usually at the cost of taxpayers. The comments by Eschetic are out of line. What is the "TRADITIONAL church" that they say "agrees with the current standard" of abortion? What is "standard" about abortion?? They are even telling us what Jesus Christ would have condoned !! Praveen would do better to ensure his fellow countrywomen are given as much safe care in India where thousands are aborted because they do not want a girl child, or women are killed at the behest of the men in her own family, "honour killing". Yes, the beam in his own eye... He will never receive peace in his heart for the loss of his dear wife by wanting the death law of abortion installed in Ireland. He needs counseling from someone who knows the value of human life and the handling of loss rather than the pro-aborts who scream for the blood of the preborn babies. I faced such loss when my beloved spouse died. pro-abort ranks.

Bravo, Praveen, for trying to make something positive out of your overwhelming loss. Bravo to all those who are pointing out that it is not only natural but right that the tragic death of Savita Halappanava be the basis for a positive change in the laws of Ireland. The only GENUINE "Pro-Life" position is not anti-abortion but pro-choice. Even recognizing that Ireland is an overwhelmingly Catholic nation which may impose that moral perspective on others in SOME of its laws, the TRADITIONAL church position agrees with the current standard of access to abortion (during the first trimester before the ganglia of the brain start to form - the "quickening"). It is only the superstitious bias of those who want to push the radical agenda of life beginning at conception (or before) rather than the mere *potential* for life who want to maintain the conditions which led to this woman's death - and that position Christ, as depicted in the Bible, would NEVER have condoned.