Just in case the world was forgetting what a nation of stupid, hypocritical, backward gobshites Ireland is, University Hospital Galway saw fit to issue it with a timely reminder.I speak of 31-year-old Savita Halappanavar, who died there needlessly because doctors would not countenance the termination of a miscarried foetus.
"Ireland is a Catholic country", she and her fellow Hindu husband were allegedly told.
Instead of instigating an immediate termination on a foetus that had no chance of survival, they opted to make her wait in agony for three days because the foetus "had a heartbeat". When they eventually did induce a termination, when said heartbeat had stopped, it was too late for the mother.
Her organs went into septic shock and she died.
Is it not strange kind of "pro-life" outlook that will cause two deaths (by its terms) to take place rather than one? An outlook informed by absolutist religious fundamentalist interpretations of life, and devoid of any kind of commonsense, rationality or logic?
It is an outlook with many subscribers in this country.
But it is Ireland after all.
The following is taken from the UK's Guardian, to provide some flavour of how others might see it.
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Scandal in Ireland as woman dies in Galway 'after being denied abortion'
Health authorities investigating septicaemia death of 31-year-old dentist Savita Halappanavar
Members of anti-abortion groups demonstrating in Dublin last year as a private member's bill proposing legalising abortion in Ireland was debated. The bill did not succeed. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA Health authorities in Ireland are investigating the death of a pregnant woman whose husband says she was denied an abortion following severe complications.
Savita Halappanavar, who was 17 weeks pregnant, died of septicaemia a week after presenting with back pain on 21 October at University hospital in Galway, where she was found to be miscarrying.
After the 31-year-old dentist was told that she was miscarrying, her husband reportedly said that she had asked for a medical termination a number of times over a three day period, during which she was in severe pain.
But he said these requests were denied because a foetal heartbeat was still present and they were told at one point: "This is a Catholic country."
Medical staff removed the dead foetus days later after the heartbeat stopped but Halappanavar died of septicaemia on 28 October.
Ireland's health service executive, which runs the country's public health care system, has initiated an investigation into the incident, which is also being investigated by the hospital itself.
Reports of the death sparked an outcry on Wednesday night in Ireland, where abortion is illegal unless the life of the woman is in danger.
The Fine Gael/Labour government has struggled to respond to a 2010 ruling by the European court of human rights, which found it had failed to implement laws to enable women to have an abortion when their life is at risk during pregnancy.
Rachel Donnelly, a spokeswoman for pro-choice campaigners in Galway said: "This was an obstetric emergency which should have been dealt with in a routine manner. Yet Irish doctors are restrained from making obvious medical decisions by a fear of potentially severe consequences.
"As the European court ruled, as long as the 1861 Act remains in place, alongside a complete political unwillingness to touch the issue, pregnant women will continue to be unsafe in this country."
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Now, I have no problem with people pursuing whatever religious beliefs they like, though I am an atheist myself. Whatever makes them happy or gives them comfort.
The problem, however, is when a supposed "republic" is guided by the supposed morals of one particular religious franchise, which are imposed on its entire population, subscribers or not.
Welcome to the Republic of Ireland, twinned with the Republic of Iran.
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