Salon.com > Enda Kenny http://www.salon.com Fri, 24 May 2013 01:55:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 “Religion” keeps a woman from getting a lifesaving abortion http://www.salon.com/2012/11/14/religion_keeps_a_woman_from_getting_a_life_saving_abortion/ http://www.salon.com/2012/11/14/religion_keeps_a_woman_from_getting_a_life_saving_abortion/#comments Wed, 14 Nov 2012 16:38:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13072675 Here's your horrible, heartbreaking reminder for today, world: When religion guides your government and reproductive rights are denied, women die.

Savita Halappanavar, a 31-year-old dentist living in Galway, was 17 weeks pregnant when she appeared at her University Hospital on Oct. 21, complaining of pain. Doctors there determined that she was miscarrying, but would not remove the fetus because it still had a heartbeat. Her husband, Praveen Halappanavar, told reporters this week that the hospital staff informed the couple that "This is a Catholic country." Mr. Praveen who came to Ireland from India, told the staff, "I am neither Irish nor Catholic," but they said they couldn't do anything. 

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