Thousands of people in Ireland have marched on the offices of the prime minister, calling for clear guidelines on abortion law. It follows the death of a woman from blood poisoning after she was denied an abortion.

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Doctors refused Halappanavar's request to terminate her 17-week pregnancy after she was hospitalized with severe pain during a miscarriage. The fetus was removed days later but both Halappanavar's husband and activists believe the delay contributed to the blood poisoning, and that she might have survived had it been removed earlier.

As a general rule, I dislike abortions, and an ideological part of me wouldn't be against making it harder for later term pregnancies (e.g., the one being discussed here) harder to abort. However, having known someone in a situation not that different from Halappanavar's (although in her case it was even later, but she simply had to allow her pregnancy to self-terminate), I'm against any laws that would delay life-saving procedures when they are needed. Filling out paperwork proving that a procedure is life saving would most likely qualify as such a delay. In short, I'm simply stating the classical line that the choice is ultimately one that the woman needs to make, whether or not I agree with that choice.