Death of pregnant woman that sparked protests in Poland was unrelated to abortion law, say prosecutors

NOV 16, 2023
Notes from Poland

Prosecutors investigating the death of a pregnant woman in hospital – which sparked mass protests against Poland’s near-total ban on abortion – have concluded that the tragedy was unrelated to the abortion law.

The woman, Izabela, died in September 2021 after being brought to hospital in the 20th week of her pregnancy following a premature rupture of membranes. Her foetus subsequently died, and then so did Izabela herself soon after due to septic shock.

Continued: https://notesfrompoland.com/2023/11/16/death-of-pregnant-woman-that-sparked-protests-in-poland-was-unrelated-to-abortion-law-say-prosecutors/

16.11.2023

Law and Justice party

maternal death

Supreme Medical Chamber

India – 13-year-old dies after induced abortion in Delhi

Sept 24, 2023

NEW DELHI: Delhi Police has registered a case of rape and death due to miscarriage on the basis of the postmortem report of a 13-year old girl who died in August in Narela Industrial Area. Cops are searching for her parents, who are absconding. They are probing whether they had given her any abortion pills.

Continued: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/13-year-old-dies-after-induced-abortion-in-delhi/articleshow/103899629.cms?from=mdr

24.09.2023

USA – Lawsuit: Woman died after not being treated properly following abortion

By David Wilson, Las Vegas Review-Journal
September 22, 2023

A 24-year-old woman died last year of complications from septic abortion which, according to a wrongful death lawsuit, could have been prevented if she received the proper care.

On Sept. 22, 2022, Alyona Dixon visited a Planned Parenthood location and was given medication to terminate her pregnancy.

Continued: https://www.reviewjournal.com/local/local-las-vegas/lawsuit-woman-died-after-not-being-treated-properly-following-abortion-2908866/

22.09.2023

Alyona Dixon

care denial

Desert View Regional Medical Center

St. Rose Dominican Blue Diamond hospital

USA – The loss of abortion access demands a day of collective mourning

One year into the reversal of Roe v. Wade, it is clear that forced birth takes lives

Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
June 22, 2023

The one-year anniversary of the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health decision — the Supreme Court ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade and ended federal protections on our Constitutionally guaranteed right to abortion access — arrives this Shabbat, on June 24.

Jews must mark this day as a time of collective mourning for all those whose lives were taken from them because the government stripped them of their right to abortion access.

Continued: https://forward.com/opinion/551585/dobbs-anniversary-collective-mourning-abortion-access/

22.06.2023

Commentary

abortion and suicide

abortion and yahrtzeit

National Council of Jewish Women

Orthodox Judaism and abortion

Poland to issue more detailed abortion guidelines after another pregnant woman dies

The 33-year-old from Poland, which has some of the strictest abortion rules, died of sepsis after the hospital waited for the foetus to die.

By Lauren Chadwick
12/06/2023

Polish health authorities have appointed a team to issue more detailed pregnancy termination guidelines for medical facilities after a pregnant woman died last month.

Authorities said on Monday that a 33-year-old woman, Dorota, had her rights violated after she died of sepsis in a hospital.

Continued: https://www.euronews.com/next/2023/06/12/poland-to-issue-more-detailed-abortion-guidelines-after-another-pregnant-woman-dies

12.06.2023

International Planned Parenthood Federation

Polish authorities rule rights of pregnant woman who died were violated amid abortion law debate

Polish health authorities say that there was a violation of patient rights in the case of a woman who died of sepsis in the fifth month of pregnancy last month, a case that has gained scrutiny after a tightening of Poland’s already restrictive abortion...

By The Associated Press
June 12, 2023

WARSAW, Poland -- Polish health authorities said Monday that there was a violation of patient rights in the case of a woman who died of sepsis in the fifth month of pregnancy last month, a case that has gained scrutiny after a tightening of Poland’s already restrictive abortion law.

Poland's health minister, Adam Niedzielski, also stressed that every woman whose life or health is threatened by her pregnancy has the right to an abortion.

Continued: https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/polish-authorities-rule-rights-pregnant-woman-died-violated-100008003

12.06.2023

News

Adam Niedzielski

Bartlomiej Chmielowiec

A woman dies every two minutes due to pregnancy or childbirth: UN agencies

New data show major setbacks for maternal health in many parts of the world, highlighting stark disparities in healthcare access

23 February 2023
World Health Organization

Every two minutes, a woman dies during pregnancy or childbirth, according to the latest estimates released in a report by United Nations agencies today. This report, Trends in maternal mortality, reveals alarming setbacks for women’s health over recent years, as maternal deaths either increased or stagnated in nearly all regions of the world.

“While pregnancy should be a time of immense hope and a positive experience for all women, it is tragically still a shockingly dangerous experience for millions around the world who lack access to high quality, respectful health care,” said Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO). “These new statistics reveal the urgent need to ensure every woman and girl has access to critical health services before, during and after childbirth, and that they can fully exercise their reproductive rights.”

Continued: https://www.who.int/news/item/23-02-2023-a-woman-dies-every-two-minutes-due-to-pregnancy-or-childbirth--un-agencies

Bleeding and in pain, she couldn’t get 2 Louisiana ERs to answer: Is it a miscarriage?

December 29, 2022
ROSEMARY WESTWOOD
7-Minute Listen with transcript

BATON ROUGE, La. – When Kaitlyn Joshua found out she was pregnant in mid-August, she and her husband, Landon Joshua, were excited to have a second baby on the way. They have a 4-year-old daughter, and thought that was just the right age to help out with a younger sibling.

At about six weeks pregnant, Joshua, 30, called a physicians' group in Baton Rouge. She wanted to make her first prenatal appointment there for around the eight-week mark, as she had in her first pregnancy. But Joshua says the woman on the line told her she was going to have to wait over a month.

Continued: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/12/29/1143823727/bleeding-and-in-pain-she-couldnt-get-2-louisiana-ers-to-answer-is-it-a-miscarria

Strict new abortion laws ignite debate in Poland and expose kinship with U.S.

“For the for the majority of women, it’s not accessible,” the executive director of Poland’s Federation for Women and Family Planning told NBC News.

Dec. 22, 2022
By Matt Bradley, Ewa Galica and Mo Abbas

WARSAW, Poland — Standing in a near-empty rural cemetery, Barbara Skrobol braced against the cold and a potential confrontation: The local priest, she said, doesn’t like the journalists and activists she regularly parades past her sister-in-law’s grave.

“She just wanted to live,” Skrobol said of her brother’s wife, Izabela Sajbor, who died last year from sepsis at the age of 30. An abortion could have saved her life, she said. “We blame not only the doctors because they made a mistake, but we blame the politicians who implemented this law.”

Continued: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/strict-new-abortion-laws-ignite-debate-poland-expose-kinship-us-rcna60654

Women call for tougher EU stance on Poland’s abortion laws

At least six women have died in Poland after doctors refused to terminate their pregnancies due to the constitutional court’s ruling on abortions.

By Priyanka Shankar
Published On 18 Nov 2022

Brussels, Belgium – Fighting for justice and women’s rights in Poland has become an integral part of Barbara Skrobol’s life since September 22, 2021.

This was the day her sister-in-law, Izabela Sajbor, died of sepsis at a hospital in southern Poland after doctors refused to terminate her pregnancy after finding foetal defects, due to Poland’s stringent abortion rules.

Continued: https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2022/11/18/women-call-for-tougher-eu-stance-on-polands-abortion-laws