http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-20321741
This sad situation was so easily preventable as well. R.I.P. to the poor lady.
This sad situation was so easily preventable as well. R.I.P. to the poor lady.
She died of septimcemia? She had to have had a raging fever and a high blood count. But no one at the hospital noticed this for the three days that she languished in agony, begging for an abortion?
Septicemia is something that you die at home from because you were too stubborn to go the the hospital. But once you are in the hospital the fever is easily spotted, and then discovery of the high white cell count follows quickly.
What were those nurses thinking? What were the doctors thinking?
Legally this never should have happened. Because of the X case here in Ireland woman are supposed to be granted abortions when their life is at risk (including suicide).
It came about because of a young girl (14 I think) was raped and wanted to be allowed an abortion after she said she would kill herself if they forced her to carry to term.
This doesn't even stop or prevent women here getting abortions as many will just go to England and have the procedure there. All it does is put woman like this in danger.
If they can afford to come to England but you have to pay for the abortion as the NHS will not pay for it due to agreements with Ireland. You also need to pay for travel and accommodation. Not all women can afford too.
Dr. Seán Ó Domhnaill, medical adviser to the Life Institute, hailed the global import of the symposium’s findings: “This is a globally significant outcome, which shows abortion has no place in treating women and their unborn children.”
A mere two months ago in Dublin "A major medical symposium ... concluded that abortion is not medically necessary to save the life of a pregnant mother."
http://liveactionnews.org/international/dublin-declaration-abortion-is-not-medically-necessary/
Go to the article and look at the smiling, complacent faces on the panel in the photograph.
I wonder what the doctors and academics who participated in the symposium have to say for themselves now. Participants included Eamon O’Dwyer, Eoghan De Faoite, Byron C. Calhoun, Frederic Amant, Priscilla K. Coleman, Elard Koch, Jean Kagia, Monique V. Chireau, and John Monaghan.
A mere two months ago in Dublin "A major medical symposium ... concluded that abortion is not medically necessary to save the life of a pregnant mother."
http://liveactionnews.org/international/dublin-declaration-abortion-is-not-medically-necessary/
We uphold that there is a fundamental difference between abortion, and necessary medical treatments that are carried out to save the life of the mother, even if such treatment results in the loss of life of her unborn child.
The focus of a fierce suburban congressional battle turned from the economy to abortion literally overnight following Republican Rep. Joe Walsh’s controversial declaration that there’s no medical necessity to use the procedure to save a woman’s life.
“With modern technology and science, you can’t find one instance,” Walsh declared in comments to reporters after a televised debate Thursday night against Democrat Tammy Duckworth in the northwest suburban 8th District race…
Most of this misses the point that terminating the pregnancy would not have saved the woman's life. Someone spotting that she had septicaemia would have done.
Most of this misses the point that terminating the pregnancy would not have saved the woman's life. Someone spotting that she had septicaemia would have done.
Then the people who had her in their care are guilty of gross negligence. If her death was a direct result of their negligence then, imo, they should be charged with manslaughter.
How any team of people with any degree of medical training can let a woman spend three days in agony is something I cannot comprehend.
It would have, she got septicemia from miscarrying. Failure to diagnose a miscarriage can result in a blood infection for the mother or sepsis. The doctors didn't intervene to prevent sepsis occurring when she was miscarrying even though her condition was worsening (which would be a right time to intervene and end the pregnancy), they said the foetus was still had a beating heart so they refused to terminate when she asked for one.
Many women used to die of sepsis from a miscarriage, birth or still birth, you don't hear it as much now.
Sepsis in pregnancy is not straightforward to diagnose according to Mrs Waylander, who is a practising midwife.