Protesters took to the streets in Dublin last Saturday to demand a further liberalisation of Ireland’s already radical abortion law.

Orla O’Connor, director of the National Women’s Council, said urgent reform is needed “to decriminalise abortion, remove the three-day wait period and the 12-week limit to enable abortion on request up to viability”, which is around the 24-week mark in pregnancy.

The march took place ten years after the death of Savita Halappanar and she was cited extensively by the pro-choice activists.

However, Pro Life Campaign spokesperson Eilis Mulroy said it is “unfair and disingenuous” for the tenth anniversary of Ms Halappanavar’s death to see calls for “an even more extreme expansion of the Irish abortion law”.

“Whilst her tragic death was the result of medical oversight, it was not caused by the Eighth Amendment as campaigners for abortion have incessantly claimed,” she said.

“Mismanaged sepsis was the cause of Savita’s death, as backed up by several independent reports, and not the denial of an abortion.

“Ten years on from her death, it is highly inappropriate for campaigners and pro-abortion politicians to continue leaning on myths and mistruths to push for a radical expansion of Ireland’s already extreme abortion law.”