A woman in the midst of a miscarriage was refused an abortion and died in an Irish hospital after suffering from blood poisoning. She was repeatedly refused an abortion, eventhough it was apparently over three days that her health was failing (heart, kidney, liver failure), because the doctors could still hear the fetal heartbeat and was waiting for the miscarriage to occur. The woman was 17 weeks along in her pregnancy.
It is illegal in Ireland to have an abortion, eventhough the woman was neither Irish nor Catholic.
If a woman is pregnant, her life in jeopardy, does she have a right to termination?
In this case the fetus died the following day. If the fetus did not reach the viability stage, does it change your consideration?