A bunch of girls's rights activists protest towards Poland's strict anti-abortion regulation, outdoors the highest constitutional court docket, in Warsaw, Poland, Jan. 26, 2022. (AP Picture/Czarek Sokolowski)
WARSAW, POLAND --
Prosecutors in southern Poland are probing the loss of life of a 37-year-old girl in a hospital who had been pregnant with twins, a scenario by which her household and ladies's rights teams blame Poland's strict anti-abortion regulation, alleging it fatally delayed medical doctors' resolution to terminate the being pregnant.
Prosecutors in Katowice stated Monday they have been awaiting the outcomes of three autopsies to find out the reason for the Jan. 25 loss of life of the lady, recognized solely as Agnieszka T., and the late December deaths of her two fetuses, after which the being pregnant was terminated.
The prosecutors are questioning the lady's husband, her twin sister and the medical doctors and hospital employees in a probe into potential medical errors, a spokesman for the prosecutors, Ireneusz Kunert informed The Related Press.
The girl's household issued a press release saying they think sepsis was the reason for the lady's loss of life and allege it was brought on by the medical doctors' resolution to proceed her being pregnant regardless of the loss of life of one of many fetuses, and allege the abortion was additionally delayed after the opposite fetus' loss of life.
The household, in addition to ladies's rights group, the All-Poland Ladies's Strike, blame the loss of life on the 2020 strict anti-abortion verdict by a high constitutional court docket handed below Poland's right-wing authorities. They are saying it has a chilling impact on medical doctors, resulting in flawed medical selections.
"One other sufferer of the ban on abortion in Poland: 37-year-old Agnieszka of Cz─Östochowa," the ladies's group stated on Fb. "We maintain shouting .NotOneMore, however the ban on abortion is killing increasingly ladies."
Below the court docket's verdict, which drew huge protests, it is unlawful in Poland to terminate being pregnant with congenital defects, as was beforehand potential. It implies that an abortion is just potential when the being pregnant threatens the lady's well being or life, or if it outcomes from crime like rape or incest.
The specialised hospital in Czestochowa says all essential and out there therapy procedures have been utilized in efforts to save lots of the three lives and that no different elements influenced its medical selections.
It stated that two days earlier than her loss of life the lady examined optimistic for COVID-19 and her situation was deteriorating. She was rushed to a different hospital however died there a number of hours later.
The mom of three, in her first trimester of being pregnant, was admitted to the hospital on Dec. 21 with ache and vomiting. Two days later one of many fetuses died, however the being pregnant was continued to save lots of the opposite fetus, which, nonetheless, died Dec. 29. The being pregnant was terminated on Dec. 31 and the lady remained hospitalized, however was later moved to the neurology ward, the hospital stated.
An skilled in gynecology, Maciej W. Socha, informed the OKO.press portal that the being pregnant couldn't have been terminated sooner and that the medical doctors' selections have been proper.
"This nightmarish verdict of the Constitutional Court docket had no affect or connection to this specific scenario," Socha stated.
However he added that Poland's near-ban on abortion has had a really stressing impact on ladies.
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