Since abortion is strictly regulated in Poland, the Health Ministry issued guidelines to doctors on when it is permissible. The instructions were delivered amid apparent uncertainty over the country's new abortion law.
The letter to obstetricians was written in response to the death in hospital of a 30-year-old mother whose 22-week pregnancy had medical complications. Although the woman passed away in September, her death was only recently made public. Even though her fetus lacked enough amniotic fluid to survive, doctors at the hospital in Pszczyna, in southern Poland, refused to terminate her pregnancy, according to her family and a lawyer. The doctors have been suspended, and prosecutors are investigating.
Another wave of enormous protests erupted in Poland, this time blaming the woman's death on Poland's stringent abortion law. According to women's rights activists, doctors in the largely Catholic country are afraid of present abortion rules. "Not one more" was a protest phrase, the mayor of Warsaw posted a hashtag version of the Polish language slogan on Instagram.
SOURCE:
DW.com
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Foreignpolicy.com
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Published by: Julianne Andrei Batiao
Date published: December 6, 2021
Time published: 11:06 am
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