Pro-choice groups remember Savita Halappanavar

Four years on from the death of Savita Halappanavar, the people of Ireland have shown they have not forgotten her.

Last night, Galway Pro-Choice group held a candlelit vigil at the Spanish Arch in her memory, while, yesterday, a video made from hand drawings outlining the events that led to Ms Halappanavar’s death was posted to YouTube and various tributes were written in her memory.

Her death in 2012, on October 28 at Galway University Hospital due to septicemia from miscarrying at 17 weeks, having been refused a termination, galvanised many people to fight for the reproductive rights of women in Ireland.