What always saddens me about this is the fact that she was a dentist so she would have known exactly what was happening to her. What a horrific way to die.
Sometimes I think about what her life could have been. Maybe she and her husband would have a few cute little kids running around by now. Maybe she would have had a lovely 10 years, filled with family and friends, love and laughter.
What happened was really sad and tragic. It’s disgraceful that it came to that. Let’s never forget her.
Edit: removing insensitive language out of respect
Rip to the poor soul
I still remember my mom, who has never cared about politics all her life, pick up banners and posters for the March, even make some (borderline threatening) calls to the embassy. I’d never seen the Indian community here shaken up as much as when this had happened.
Her story is Ireland’s disgrace. Will never be forgotten.
Just got chills all over my entire body reading this
Great to see her image being used for upvotes all the same. U/JohnHammond94 would you not give some context or add something to this for the people who are unaware of her story.
This is such a shameful part of our history, but I am proud that when referendums have been done to enact change, the Irish people do the right thing. Divorce, marriage equality, womens right to bodily autonomy. It’s sad to see countries like the US go backwards as Ireland progresses
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RIP
So sad and embarrassing that’s what we believed without thinking about the implications.
I now live in the US and to see more and more states to lean and extend to this way of thinking, again makes me sad.
10 years already? She will never understand how she began change in her adaptive country.
>The important thing is: to be able, at any moment, to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Indian yoga guru
Sad that it took something so tragic happening for change to come but I am so grateful to her that it did. At least it gives some small meaning to a completely unavoidable death
Wow, 10 years already. RIP.
After 2 independent investigations and a Court case taken by the family we are still pretending to ourselves that this poor womans death had something to do with religious belief or Ireland abortion laws. It didn’t. The court case taken by her family claimed medical negligence. The fact is that this was a case of disgraceful hospital negligence… but nothing more than that. She deserves the attention she is getting but so do all the other women that are mutilated and damaged by hospital negligence every year. Why are we ignoring them? Because we somehow want to make this story into something it is not for political reasons.
It will be of no real consolation to her family, but her death most likely prevented so much suffering for other women down the line. RIP Savita, you certainly never asked to be a cause we rallied around, but I think we will always remember you and the stain your death left on our country.
Hard to believe it’s been so long. Feels like such a different time back then.
Same with the marriage equality ref, it’ll be 8 years next year.
Never again. RIP
R. I. P.
It is horrible what happened.
I used to always say that the trigger to overturn the 8th would come from a foreign person living in Ireland that was subjected to our rules, like a tourist or someone in a direct provision center but Savita unfortunately and tragically for her and her family was that catalyst. I hope we remember her in history as she made the ultimate sacrifice for our own freedoms here. RIP.
Can you believe those ecclesiastical cunts will still run the Maternity Hospital, located next to the lowest birth rate community in the country, and close to where I imagine many many consultants live.
We’ve learned nothing. Her death continues to be a disgusting, misogynistic farce.
With everything that is happening in the US right now, I think of her tragedy often. We will see the same happening here very soon.
Disgusted that this happened but I’m very pleased that we came together to make a difference going forward.
A tragic death exploited by horrible people. RIP..
I lived in Galway at the time and it was heartbreaking and enraging. Her death lit a lot of fires under people to cry out for immediate change. I only hope her family look back and see that we got the change that was needed to stop this from happening to anyone else and how sorry we are that it wasn’t sooner. RIP
You’re just wrong. Plain and simple. Wrong. You are confusing ‘may have contributed to’ with ’caused’. Her death was caused by a series of catastrophic clinical failures… ie negligence.
Shame she had to die in order to drag this country out of the dark ages and into the 21st century. About time the backward sexist bulshit of the Catholic Church was rescinded in terms of abortion. Too bad it took her life for the government to finally listen to what women had been shouting for for so long.
I remember sitting in the office reading the news of her death and bawling my eyes out in a weird mix of fury at the hospital and devastation for her family. That was followed by a horrible creeping shame about living in a country where we could let this happen, out of pure cowardice and residual catholic bullshittery.
Savita deserved so much better. Her family deserved so much better.
Now, as I watch the US and how they’re only beginning to understand the consequences of Roe v Wade being overturned, I’ve thought of Savita a lot. It took too long really for us to have that referendum, and things are still far from perfect here, but we spoke as a nation, and we need to be sure we remember Savita, and the X case, and hold steady on progress.
God this story is so fucking sad. It never should have happened.
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I’ve just put in makeup and now I’m in tears. RIP Savita
As always with ireland it’s an attitude of “ara sure it’ll be grand” until someone dies or we get embarrassed globally as a nation to change.
It’s happening right now with the government housing Ukrainians who were homeless when they arrived here. 24 hour turn around and being dragged over the coals in the media and suddenly everyone is housed.
We are not a good country, we do not have any foresight and we cannot lead ourselves as we are an immature nation with low self esteem.
As tragic as this case was, introducing an abortion free-for-all wasn’t a necessary nor proportionate response.
Her death is a gross stain on our history, and it was only 10 years ago. Shameful to think this even happened
Nonsense… you have an agenda
Wow, I can’t believe it’s been 10 years. I should probably know this by now but did she have any children when she died?
I wish more people in the states knew who she was and how she died. She wanted to be a mom, wanted to have a baby, and because of fucking dumb religion, she’s dead. We’re just going to repeat the same awful situations if we don’t allow women to safe access to abortions.
Fucking still makes my blood boil. Her death galvanised a movement but it was unnecessary and preventable. Fucksake
May she rest in peace, and may her family know solace
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What always saddens me about this is the fact that she was a dentist so she would have known exactly what was happening to her. What a horrific way to die.
Sometimes I think about what her life could have been. Maybe she and her husband would have a few cute little kids running around by now. Maybe she would have had a lovely 10 years, filled with family and friends, love and laughter.
For context.
Very sad story.
BBC News – Savita Halappanavar: Medical misadventure verdict in inquest
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22213630
What happened was really sad and tragic. It’s disgraceful that it came to that. Let’s never forget her.
Edit: removing insensitive language out of respect
Rip to the poor soul
I still remember my mom, who has never cared about politics all her life, pick up banners and posters for the March, even make some (borderline threatening) calls to the embassy. I’d never seen the Indian community here shaken up as much as when this had happened.
Her story is Ireland’s disgrace. Will never be forgotten.
Just got chills all over my entire body reading this
Great to see her image being used for upvotes all the same. U/JohnHammond94 would you not give some context or add something to this for the people who are unaware of her story.
This is such a shameful part of our history, but I am proud that when referendums have been done to enact change, the Irish people do the right thing. Divorce, marriage equality, womens right to bodily autonomy. It’s sad to see countries like the US go backwards as Ireland progresses
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RIP
So sad and embarrassing that’s what we believed without thinking about the implications.
I now live in the US and to see more and more states to lean and extend to this way of thinking, again makes me sad.
10 years already? She will never understand how she began change in her adaptive country.
>The important thing is: to be able, at any moment, to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Indian yoga guru
Sad that it took something so tragic happening for change to come but I am so grateful to her that it did. At least it gives some small meaning to a completely unavoidable death
Wow, 10 years already. RIP.
After 2 independent investigations and a Court case taken by the family we are still pretending to ourselves that this poor womans death had something to do with religious belief or Ireland abortion laws. It didn’t. The court case taken by her family claimed medical negligence. The fact is that this was a case of disgraceful hospital negligence… but nothing more than that. She deserves the attention she is getting but so do all the other women that are mutilated and damaged by hospital negligence every year. Why are we ignoring them? Because we somehow want to make this story into something it is not for political reasons.
It will be of no real consolation to her family, but her death most likely prevented so much suffering for other women down the line. RIP Savita, you certainly never asked to be a cause we rallied around, but I think we will always remember you and the stain your death left on our country.
Hard to believe it’s been so long. Feels like such a different time back then.
Same with the marriage equality ref, it’ll be 8 years next year.
Never again. RIP
R. I. P.
It is horrible what happened.
I used to always say that the trigger to overturn the 8th would come from a foreign person living in Ireland that was subjected to our rules, like a tourist or someone in a direct provision center but Savita unfortunately and tragically for her and her family was that catalyst. I hope we remember her in history as she made the ultimate sacrifice for our own freedoms here. RIP.
Can you believe those ecclesiastical cunts will still run the Maternity Hospital, located next to the lowest birth rate community in the country, and close to where I imagine many many consultants live.
We’ve learned nothing. Her death continues to be a disgusting, misogynistic farce.
With everything that is happening in the US right now, I think of her tragedy often. We will see the same happening here very soon.
Disgusted that this happened but I’m very pleased that we came together to make a difference going forward.
A tragic death exploited by horrible people. RIP..
I lived in Galway at the time and it was heartbreaking and enraging. Her death lit a lot of fires under people to cry out for immediate change. I only hope her family look back and see that we got the change that was needed to stop this from happening to anyone else and how sorry we are that it wasn’t sooner. RIP
You’re just wrong. Plain and simple. Wrong. You are confusing ‘may have contributed to’ with ’caused’. Her death was caused by a series of catastrophic clinical failures… ie negligence.
Shame she had to die in order to drag this country out of the dark ages and into the 21st century. About time the backward sexist bulshit of the Catholic Church was rescinded in terms of abortion. Too bad it took her life for the government to finally listen to what women had been shouting for for so long.
I remember sitting in the office reading the news of her death and bawling my eyes out in a weird mix of fury at the hospital and devastation for her family. That was followed by a horrible creeping shame about living in a country where we could let this happen, out of pure cowardice and residual catholic bullshittery.
Savita deserved so much better. Her family deserved so much better.
Now, as I watch the US and how they’re only beginning to understand the consequences of Roe v Wade being overturned, I’ve thought of Savita a lot. It took too long really for us to have that referendum, and things are still far from perfect here, but we spoke as a nation, and we need to be sure we remember Savita, and the X case, and hold steady on progress.
God this story is so fucking sad. It never should have happened.
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I’ve just put in makeup and now I’m in tears. RIP Savita
As always with ireland it’s an attitude of “ara sure it’ll be grand” until someone dies or we get embarrassed globally as a nation to change.
It’s happening right now with the government housing Ukrainians who were homeless when they arrived here. 24 hour turn around and being dragged over the coals in the media and suddenly everyone is housed.
We are not a good country, we do not have any foresight and we cannot lead ourselves as we are an immature nation with low self esteem.
There was a great tribute to her up around where the Bernard Shaw used to be in Portabello a few years back: https://i.imgur.com/CxCSZMv_d.webp?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium
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As tragic as this case was, introducing an abortion free-for-all wasn’t a necessary nor proportionate response.
Her death is a gross stain on our history, and it was only 10 years ago. Shameful to think this even happened
Nonsense… you have an agenda
Wow, I can’t believe it’s been 10 years. I should probably know this by now but did she have any children when she died?
I wish more people in the states knew who she was and how she died. She wanted to be a mom, wanted to have a baby, and because of fucking dumb religion, she’s dead. We’re just going to repeat the same awful situations if we don’t allow women to safe access to abortions.
Fucking still makes my blood boil. Her death galvanised a movement but it was unnecessary and preventable. Fucksake
May she rest in peace, and may her family know solace