WARSAW: Abortion rights supporters marched through several cities in Poland on Wednesday (Jul 14) after the death of a pregnant woman whose family believe she could have survived if she had been offered a termination. Protesters chanted 'stop killing us' as they marched through the capital Warsaw towards t
WARSAW: Abortion rights supporters marched through several cities in Poland on Wednesday after the death of a pregnant woman whose family believe she could have survived if she had been offered a termination.
In 2021, the nationalist government of Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki put into effect a constitutional court decision banning terminations of pregnancies with foetal defects, as conservative policies increasingly take root in one of Europe's most devout Catholic countries. In 2021, a 30-year-old woman in the 22nd week of pregnancy, named Izabela, also died of septic shock after doctors waited for her unborn baby's heart to stop beating.
"There is no such issue. It's been made up," he said in response to journalists' questions on Wednesday, accusing critics of the policy of"propaganda" and creating an"imaginary reality."
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