Protests flare up across Poland as another pregnant woman’s death is blamed on abortion law

People in Poland marched in at least 80 towns and cities last week to protest the death of a 33 year old woman who was wrongfully denied an abortion that could have saved her life.The rights of Dorota Lalik were infringed, said patients’ rights ombudsman Bartlomiej Chmielowiec, when doctors at John Paul II Hospital in Nowy Targ neglected to tell her that chances of a successful pregnancy were low and that an abortion could prevent the risk of sepsis.She had gone to the hospital when her waters broke in the twentieth week of pregnancy. Doctors told her to lie with her legs up and waited for the fetus, which had unspecified defects, to die. Dorota developed sepsis and died after three days in hospital.“The patient’s rights have been violated, the right to provide health services in accordance with current medical knowledge has been violated, the patient’s right to have services…
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