Expert: Dying woman should have got Irish abortion

By Shawn Pogatchnik
Published June 13, 2013 4:00am ET
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Expert: Dying woman should have got Irish abortion
FILE - A Saturday, Nov. 17, 2012 photo from files showing abortion rights protesters hold candles and pictures in a vigil for Savita Halappanavar outside Ireland's government headquarters in Dublin. Ireland's prime minister says anti-abortion activists in the predominantly Catholic country have inundated his office with threatening packages and letters branding him a murderer, some written in blood. Enda Kenny made the declaration Wednesday, June 12, 2013, as his government prepared to publish a bill that would legalize abortions in exceptional cases where doctors deem the woman's life is in danger from continued pregnancy. Anti-abortion activists insist the proposed law would lead eventually to widespread abortion. (AP Photo/Shawn Pogatchnik, File) | Shawn Pogatchnik

DUBLIN (AP) — A miscarrying woman who died in an Irish hospital should have had her blood poisoning detected much sooner and been offered an abortion to improve her odds of survival, an experts’ report concluded Thursday in a case that is forcing Ireland to modernize its abortion laws.

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