Emma Watson pens moving open letter to Savita Halappanavar, who died after being denied an abortion
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On Oct. 28, 2012, Savita Halappanavar died in University Hospital Galway, Ireland, due to complications of a septic miscarriage after being denied an abortion.
Her death — which an inquest ruled was caused by "medical misadventure" — was the catalyst for Ireland's historic abortion referendum.
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Six years on from Savita's preventable death, Emma Watson has penned a moving open letter to the 31-year-old woman.
It was a great honour to be asked by @PORTERmagazine to pay the deepest respect to the legacy of Dr Savita Halappanavar, whose death powered the determination of activists to change Irish abortion laws & fight for reproductive justice all over the worldhttps://t.co/KZWRpp7btO pic.twitter.com/yLDXgcHKyh
— Emma Watson (@EmmaWatson) September 29, 2018 Read more...
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