Tragic Savita Halappanavar’s husband has repeated his call on the Irish government to ensure his wife’s death was not in vain.
Praveen Halappanavar again spoke out as Ireland comes to terms with the death of Savita after a Galway hospital refused to terminate her pregnancy and save her life.
Her husband has again told the Irish media of his hopes his caring wife will rest in peace if Ireland’s abortion laws are changed.
Savita’s parents have also hit out at the Irish laws which they believe cost their only daughter her life.
Husband Praveen, an engineer with Boston Scientific in Galway, also thanked the Irish people for the support he had received from all over the country.
He said: “My main objective is that they should change the law so it won’t happen to someone else. I know Savita won’t come back but I hope that she will rest in peace, you know, if they change the law.
Savita’s mother Akkamahadevi and her husband Andaneppa Sangappa Yalagi were highly critical of Irish regulations when they spoke from their home.
Her mother said: “How many more cases will there be? The rules should be changed as per the requirement of Hindus. We are Hindus, not Christians.”
Her husband Andaneppa said: “We are all curious really about what exactly went wrong and then maybe looking at putting some pressure to change the regulations.”
Savita died from septicaemia at 1.10am on Sunday, October 28. Husband Praveen told the Irish Independent that she asked medics to carry out a medical abortion or induce her but were told it was a Catholic country and against regulations.
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He said: “They never mentioned anything about a risk to Savita until she was taken to ICU, all they ever focused on was the baby.
“Basically everyone back home here in India, her family and friends, everyone can’t believe it in the 21st Century in a country like Ireland.
“The question they keep asking is why did they not straight away terminate her the minute they came to know that the baby won’t survive. That is the question I have been asked again and again and again. I don’t have the answer so they have to change that.”
Savita’s brother Sanjeev paid tribute to his sister. He said: “She was a wonderful person. I’m saying this not just because she was my sister. She was a very wonderful person, she deserved to live.
“My sister had a belief it was a safe place to have a baby but it is very unfortunate that we came to know because of this law her life is gone. We believe even underdeveloped countries are more safe than Ireland.”
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Switch to the desktop site to post a comment.eiriamach | Dec 01, 2012, 12:25 PM EST
@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.
mairint | Nov 20, 2012, 04:18 PM EST
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.
Eschetic | Nov 20, 2012, 01:31 PM EST
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.