She lived in a state that was suppose to have exemptions for the life of a mother. She appealed for this, it was not granted. She couldn't prove if she was going to die or not, but multiple doctors said she would probably lose her ability to have children in the future.

Her pregnancy was very much planned, she badly wanted this child. But at this point, her child had a 99.7% chance of dying, and she was going to become so sick she would never be able to have a baby again. She also could suffer organ damage, but it might not be lethal.

You can say you support her having an abortion, but the laws the leave an exception for the life a mother, don't. You can say you are for the life of the mother in life-or-death events. However, the laws that claim exactly that don't really do what they say.

It's hard to prove exactly when someone will die, or when their life will just be endangered. What usually happens, is that such people are granted the request for their abortions, after they are dead. In many cases that's the only time you can prove that the mother's life was in danger.

This was the case with Savita Halappanavar in Ireland. Ireland claimed it had exemptions for the life of the mother, and it did. But the law doesn't know exactly when the mother will die, or if she's just sick. These laws say they have exemptions, and many well meaning people, like yourself, support such laws. But in the end people end up dying form them. It's hard to prove in the law exactly when a person's life is at risk, or when they are just very, very sick. You can say you support life exemptions for the mother, but who decides when that is? The court? The doctors? The court and government know nothing about when women die from pregnancy and when they don't.

I'm glad that you support the theory of life exemptions for the mother, but realistically, these exemptions do not happen.

I for one support the notion that everyone should be nice to each other. But that doesn't mean it will happen. Should I make a law that everyone has to be nice? How will I carry it out? What if I have a law that works as long as everyone agrees to be nice?

Women still end up dying with these exemptions. you can say exemptions should exist for the life of the mother, but in reality these are not carried out.