Tweeting from the hospital earlier in the morning, he said he was "thinking of Savita [Halappanavar] and all the others," who had suffered as a result of Ireland's strict abortion laws. "Let's get this corrected once and for all," he added. 31-year-old Indian dentist Savita Halappanavar became the face of the country's campaign for abortion rights after her death in Galway, Ireland, in 2012. She was denied an abortion in the midst of a five-day natural miscarriage, during which time she developed sepsis and died.