Higgins hopes women will be safer

President Michael D Higgins has said he hopes Irishwomen will be safer “and get the medical services to which any woman is entitled in any part of the world”.

He was speaking in the wake of the death of Indian dentist, Savita Halappanavar, 31, who died 17 weeks into her pregnancy.

Her husband Praveen is battling the Government and HSE to hold a sworn public inquiry into her death, which he claims happened after she was denied an abortion on medical grounds.