About 10,000 people marched through Dublin and observed a minute’s silence yesterday in memory of the Indian dentist who died of blood poisoning in an Irish hospital after being denied an abortion.
Marchers chanted, “Never again!” and held pictures of Savita Halappanavar as they paraded across the city to stage a nighttime candlelit vigil outside the office of Prime Minister Enda Kenny.
Halappanavar, 31, who was 17 weeks pregnant with her first child, died Oct. 28, one week after being hospitalized at the start of a miscarriage.
Doctors refused her requests to remove the fetus until its heartbeat stopped four days after her hospitalization. Hours later, her organs began to fail. She died three days later.
Her widower and activists say she could have survived had the fetus been removed sooner.