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November 27, 2012

If Ireland Had a Roe v. Wade

Latanya Mapp Frett, CNN

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Savita Halappanavar died last month in Ireland after being denied a lifesaving abortion. If she had lived in the United States -- where in two months we will mark four decades of safe and legal abortion on the anniversary of the Roe v. Wade ruling -- she likely would be alive today.

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TAGGED: Abortion, Ireland, Savita Halappanavar

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