• Europe Poland enacts near-total ban on abortion

Her name was Izabela, she was 30 years old and she died 22 weeks pregnant.

"

The child weighs 485 grams.

For now, thanks to the abortion law, I have to stay in bed. And there is nothing they can do. They will wait until I die or (...) I get septicemia," Izabela wrote to his mother in a message that was made public shortly after she died in late September in a hospital in Pszczyna, in southern Poland.

Tens of thousands of people demonstrated in Poland on Saturday against a law in force since the beginning of the year that practically prohibits abortion and in memory of Izabela.

"Doctors waited for the fetus to die.

The fetus died, the patient died. Septic shock,"

Jolanta Budzowska, a lawyer for the family, wrote in a tweet.

According to her, Izabela, married for 10 years and mother of another 9-year-old girl, is the first victim of the Constitutional Court's decision of October 2020, which came into effect at the end of January.

The Court, backed by the ruling party Law and Justice (PiS), banned abortion in cases of severe fetal malformation, resulting in a ban on all abortions except in cases of rape or incest, or when life of the mother is in danger.

"Not one more" chanted the thousands of protesters in Warsaw who gathered in front of the headquarters of the Tribunal before marching towards the Ministry of Health.

"I am here so that no woman's life is in danger again.

Current legislation is killing women,

" said Ewa Pietrzyk, a citizen in her 40s who carried a photo of Izabela.

Similar demonstrations took place in some 70 cities in the country.

According to a statement from Izabela's family, the doctors at the Pszczyna hospital

"adopted a waiting attitude"

, which they related to "current regulations that limit the possibility of a legal abortion."

According to the nationalists in power, the death of the young woman was not due to the decision of the Court.

Two doctors from the Pszczyna hospital were suspended from their duties after Izabela's death, while the local prosecutor's office conducts an investigation.

According to women's rights organizations,

several thousand Polish women have sought help with abortions, mostly abroad.

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