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By IANS - BANGALORE
17th November 2012 12:03 PM
Demonstrations were held here and in Belgaum Friday to protest the death
of Savita Halappanavar in an Irish hospital after doctors there reportedly declined to abort her foetus on the ground that Ireland is a "Catholic country".
The rally in Bangalore was a candle-light demonstration, the one in Savita's hometown Belgaum, 400 km from here, was organised by a students' group, police said.
In a letter to Savita's parents, Karnataka Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar condoled her
death and sought to know if his government could be of any help.
Savita, 31, a dentist from Belgaum who was working in Ireland, died of septicaemia Oct 28.
She had gone to Galway University Hospital Oct 21 complaining of back pain and she was found to be miscarrying at 17 weeks.
While
her parents Andaneppa Yalagi and Mahadevi have demanded changes in Irish abortion laws, her husband Praveen Halappanavar, who works at Boston Scientific in Galway, said he would return to Ireland soon to fight for justice for his wife.
He had brought Savita's body to Belgaum for her funeral which took place Nov 3.
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Comments(1)
As an Irish person I am really ashamed of my government´s conduct and their incompetency to legislate on a very straight forward yet serious issue. I really feel for her family. I am so annoyed with Irish people as well because they are only protesting now that somebody has lost their life. This issue should have been settled years ago. I don´t agree with the article itself or the comment above however. Ireland adopted a secular constitution in 1972 and Savita was denied an abortion because of the law. The statement was made by an ignorant doctor who should be fired. I would also like to point out that India was colonized by white British Protestants who also colonized Ireland. I do agree however that Catholicism in its very being is a colonial force and I only wish that all Irish people realized that we were colonized by both London and Rome who both in different ways tried to suppress our ancient Celtic culture.
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