David Quinn States The Obvious

He makes two sensible (and, one would have thought, self-evident) points: first, that it has not been established that ending Savita Halappanavar’s pregnancy when she was admitted to hospital would have saved her life. And second, that the doctors treating her could have legally ended her pregnancy by inducing labour if they had thought it necessary, but did not do so.

I suspect that the investigation, when it is happens, will conclude that Mrs Halappanavar in fact did not die because her child was not aborted the moment she was admitted to hospital. But by then the story will be old news. The pro-abortionists will have milked maximum publicity out of the affair, and the media will have moved on to other things.

As in the case of Ermyas M in Germany back in 2006, the political and media class will find, to their relief, that people have short memories.