"Full-sized Life is a fictional story inspired by the Savita Halappanavar tragedy"

My wife and long term literary collaborator, Susan Millar DuMars (she's the good looking one in the photo in the post immediately below this) has a very timely short story just published on The Irish Left Review.

http://www.irishleftreview.org/2013/05/16/fullsized-life/

Susan says: "Full-sized Life is a fictional story inspired by the Savita Halappanavar tragedy. Please read and share!"

Savita Halappanavar died in October at University Hospital Galway, which is visible from our kitchen window, having been refused an abortion.

Poem in response to Savita Halappanavar's death

Last week I wrote a poem which was inspired, no, provoked by the huge international controversy in response to Savita Halappanavar's death here in Galway in late October. It is published on the website of Clare Daly, the United Left Alliance T.D. who proposed legislation to deal with the X-Case last Wednesday. The poem, titled 'The Euphemisms', is dedicated to everyone in Ireland who has ever not said what they meant when talking about the issue of abortion. http://www.claredaly.ie/the-euphemisms/