Her memory deserves better than more dither and more delay

So, now we have the Government’s response to the Savita Halappanavar scandal: more dither, more delay — resulting in the risk of more dead women.

Despite allowing the impression to take hold that it would finally make a decision at next week’s Cabinet on how to proceed in light of the 20-year-old X case ruling — no such leadership will emerge.

The Government has agreed it might make a decision, sometime, maybe next year, and that the Dáil will debate the issue — but it can’t say when.