FILE - This Saturday, Nov. 17, 2012, file photo shows abortion rights protesters bearing pictures of Savita Halappanavar march through central Dublin, demanding that Ireland's government ensures that abortions can be performed to save a woman's life. The widower of an Indian woman who died in an Irish hospital after being refused an abortion has rejected the terms of a government-ordered investigation into what went wrong. Praveen Halappanavar and his lawyer said Tuesday Nov. 20, 2012 that the planned inquiry was unlikely to reach truthful conclusions because it would be private, have no witnesses testify under oath, and allows senior doctors at the Galway hospital where his wife died to serve as investigators. (AP Photo/Shawn Pogatchnik)
FILE - This Saturday, Nov. 17, 2012, file photo shows abortion rights protesters bearing pictures of Savita Halappanavar march through central Dublin, demanding that Ireland's government ensures that abortions can be performed to save a woman's life. The widower of an Indian woman who died in an Irish hospital after being refused an abortion has rejected the terms of a government-ordered investigation into what went wrong. Praveen Halappanavar and his lawyer said Tuesday Nov. 20, 2012 that the planned inquiry was unlikely to reach truthful conclusions because it would be private, have no witnesses testify under oath, and allows senior doctors at the Galway hospital where his wife died to serve as investigators. (AP Photo/Shawn Pogatchnik)
Irish women and a girl light candles in memory of Savita Halappanavar during an abortion rights rally outside Ireland's government headquarters in Dublin Saturday, Nov. 17, 2012. Thousands marched to the spot to demand that the government draft a law defining when abortions can be performed to save a woman's life. Ireland has been shocked by the death of Halappanavar, a 31-year-old Indian dentist who died of blood poisoning after being denied an abortion in a Dublin hospital last month. (AP Photo/Shawn Pogatchnik)
Women activists of India?s main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party participate in a protest against the Irish government outside their embassy in New Delhi, India, Friday, Nov. 16, 2012. Pressure mounted Thursday for the Irish government to draft a law spelling out when life-saving abortions can be performed, a demand that came after a pregnant woman who was denied an abortion died. (AP Photo/ Manish Swarup)
DUBLIN (AP) ? The widower of an Indian woman who died in an Irish hospital after being refused an abortion plans to sue Ireland's government in the European Court of Human Rights.
Praveen Halappanavar confirmed his decision Thursday through his lawyer, Gerard O'Donnell.
His wife Savita died Oct. 28 in a hospital in Galway, western Ireland, one week after being admitted for severe pain amid a miscarriage.
Doctors refused to perform an abortion for three days while the 17-week-old fetus still had a heartbeat. Savita fell gravely ill after the dead fetus was removed and then suffered gradual organ failure. A coroner ruled she died from blood poisoning.
The case has forced Ireland to re-examine its two-decade failure to pass any laws governing when women can receive abortions to save their own lives.
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