McDonald said many Irish women identified with the plight of that girl, identified only as X, and with Halappanavar, whose smiling face dominated the front page of every Irish newspaper Thursday.
‘‘It’s hard to explain the depth of anger and sorrow Savita’s death has ignited in me—a visceral rage that has reduced me, and many of my friends, to tears of exasperation and despair,’’ she wrote. ‘‘All of us thinking: That could have been me. All of us thinking: Why haven’t we sorted out this mess?’’
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