The yet-to-be-enacted law does not currently have a name. However, activists who campaigned to repeal the eighth amendment have backed a move to name it after Savita Halappanavar, the late dentist who has become a symbol of the fight for abortion rights in Irerland.

Halappanavar died in 2012 after being denied an abortion. A 31-year-old dentist living and working in Galway, she was 17 weeks pregnant with her first child when she started experiencing back pain. When she went to hospital, she was informed that she was having a miscarriage and there was no chance the foetus would survive.

Although Halappanavar begged for an abortion, she was repeatedly refused on the grounds that a foetal heartbeat could still be detected, giving it a right to life under the eighth amendment. As a result, she had to wait days until the foetus’ heartbeat stopped. She subsequently developed an infection and died of sepsis one week after arriving at hospital.

Over the weekend, a mural of Halappanavar in central Dublin became a shrine, surrounded by candles, flowers and notes and covered in stickers reading ‘Vote Yes’. On the day the results of the vote were announced, her father asked that the legislation allowing women to have an abortion be named ‘Savita’s law’.

“It should be named for her,” Andanappa Yalagi told the Irish Times.

Together for Yes – an umbrella group representing pro-repeal organisations – said it would support the move to name the law after Halappanavar.

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