Medical staff removed the dead foetus days later after the heartbeat stopped but Halappanavar died of septicaemia on 28 October.
She said that Mr Kenny willingly discussed the topic when she challenged him to remove the eighth amendment to the constitution, which equates the foetus's right to life with that of the mother in all but limited circumstances.
Consequently, leaders of Poland's ruling Law and Justice party, or PiS, are now hoping to tighten Poland's abortion laws by removing the right for a termination in cases where the foetus has a congenital disorder.
In less than 30 minutes, he has removed the hoofs and guts – including a four-month-old foetus – and halved the remaining carcass with a specialist chainsaw.
According to Human Rights Watch, the abdomens of three pregnant women were cut open and the foetus removed and thrown into a fire.
In an incident that came to light in 2007, Suresh Dedawala (Richard) alias Langado was caught on camera in a Tehelka sting operation talking to Bajarangi about slitting the belly of pregnant Muslim Kauser Banu, removing her foetus and killing it with a sword.
I have painstakingly removed a foetus part by part at 23 weeks and watched the ultrasound image of the uterus shrink back to size.
Under pressure from anti-abortion activists and MPs angered by the government's U-turn on the ban, PiS leaders have signalled their intention to tighten Poland's abortion laws further, stopping short of a total ban, by removing an exemption allowing for terminations in cases where the foetus has a congenital disorder.
Whatever you believe about when life begins, be it the moment of implantation, the forming of the primitive streak, or the point at which the foetus becomes viable, there's no getting away from the fact that by removing these genes from the pool, practising "sparing", we are saying that certain lives are less worth living than others.
