Readers Blog: Honour Savita by changing the law

October 28 marked the fifth anniversary of the tragic death of Savita Halappanavar,  As a young woman from Galway, her story has stuck with me for the past five years, and served as a reminder of the dangers of the Eighth Amendment, writes reader Suzanne Coombs

I hope to start a family of my own some day, and to think I could end up in the same situation is, quite frankly, terrifying.

Her untimely death was caused by legal uncertainty as a result of the Eighth Amendment and unfortunately very little has changed. When my sister became pregnant, I pleaded with her to return home to the UK to give birth for precisely that reason.