From my friend Stephanie Gray, in the National Post:
Do the tragic deaths in Ireland of Savita Halappanavar and her pre-born daughter Prasa really make a case for legal abortion? Many across the world are coming to that conclusion but overlooking an important piece of information recently reported in The Irish Times and The Guardian: an autopsy revealed that Halappanavar died of septicaemia “documented ante-mortem” and E.coli ESBL.
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I think what makes pro choice advocates so, so uncomfortable with this scenario is that it really highlights for everybody that the choice to have an abortion never really rests with the woman. The choice to have an abortion always, always rests with the doctor who performs the abortion. There are very, very few doctors in Ireland who are willing to perform abortions, which is one of the primary reasons abortion remains illegal there.
Doctors have a duty of care to their patients, a duty that they take very seriously. Had they induced labour and performed an abortion, hey would have been within the legal boundaries in Ireland, and nobody would have ever heard about this case, even if Savita Halappanavar had died anyway. The fact that there wasn’t a doctor in the hospital than was willing to induce labour in this case means that here wasn’t a doctor in he hospital that thought an abortion would have improved Savita Halappanavar’s chance of survival.