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Pro-life activists defend Irish hospital
Pro-Life activists have condemned criticism of an Irish hospital after it was alleged a women died there subsequent to being refused an abortion.
By Luke Nolan
Doctors at Galway University Hospital have been criticised for refusing to allow Savita Halappanavar (above) to have an abortion, even though they were behaving in line with Irish law.
Leading pro-life group the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) has defended the doctor’s position and stressed that Mrs Halappnavar died of septicemia.
Paul Tully, general secretary of SPUC, said that abortion was never the ethical choice for doctors.
“What we do know is that miscarriage and infection can be managed by proper medical treatment,” he said. “It is not ethical to induce delivery of an unborn child if there is no chance of it surviving outside the womb and it is also not ethical to end the life of an unborn child.”
Mr Tully also stated that many women have died of supposedly safe and legal abortions meaning that there is no guarantee that Mrs Halappnavar’s life would have been saved if she had been given an abortion.
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