Anti-abortion act in Ireland named after Savita Halappanavar

Team Udayavani, May 27, 2018, 11:55 AM IST

Belagavi/Dublin: Dentist Savita’s agonizing demise changing an unsympathetic law in Ireland may come as a deligh.

A local of Belagavi, the dental practitioner lost her life in Ireland on 21 October 2012 as a result of the doctors who declined to terminate her seven month old pregnancy refering to the Catholic law. 

Her parents Anandaneppa Yalagi and Akkamahadevi for whom the justice was postponed for for 6 years yet attribute their little relief of having won the battle to the Irish citizens.

Savita Halappanavar had lost her life because of an abortion bid gone amiss six years back in Ireland where she was living with her husband Praveen. The unfortunate occurrence prompted revolutionary advancements in Ireland. The realists drove by women battled as for quite a long time to scrap the law that confined abortion.

Following a submission of public voting by the Irish government on May 25. The outcomes declared on Saturday evening, the Irish residents voted illegal. The votes prompted the canceling of ninth amendment of Irish constitution. This is an insurgency by the Yalagi couple which changed a draconian law as well as the gave rise to a brighter one dedicated after Savita.