Poland
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Agnieszka T (2022) † Poland
Pregnant woman miscarrying twins dies of (likely) sepsis because doctors waited for fetuses to die. Agnieszka, a mother of three, was pregnant with twins during her first trimester when she was admitted to the Blessed Virgin Mary Hospital in Częstochowa on December 21, 2021, with abdominal pain and vomiting. According to her family, she arrived […]
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Izabela (2021) † Poland
Pregnant woman suffers loss of amniotic fluid, but dies of sepsis because doctors waited for fetus to die. 30-year-old Izabela died on Sep 22. She was 22 weeks pregnant, married with one daughter, and had been taken to hospital due to loss of amniotic fluid from her uterus. According to the family’s attorney Jolanta Budzowska, […]
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Poland
Dispatches: Abortion and the ‘Conscience Clause’ in Poland October 22, 2014 Hillary Margolis Researcher, Women’s Rights Division Poland is one of a select few countries in Europe where access to abortion remains extremely limited: it’s a crime to terminate a pregnancy except in cases of risk to the mother’s life or health, severe fetal abnormality, […]