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Woman dies in Poland after having to carry dead foetus for seven daysJAN 26, 2022 | SOCIETY | 27 COMMENTS
A pregnant woman has died after having to carry a dead foetus in her womb for over a week. The hospital at which she was treated denies wrongdoing, but prosecutors have launched an investigation and activists blame the death on Poland’s near-total abortion ban that came into force last year.
A similar case last autumn, when a pregnant woman died after doctors refused to terminate her foetus despite it being diagnosed with fatal birth defects, prompted mass protests against the abortion law. Similar demonstrations are now again being planned for today.
News of the latest death – of a 37-year-old, named only as Agnieszka, who is survived by a husband and three children – was announced last night by the family on social media.
They blamed the hospital for the tragedy, saying Agnieszka had been forced to carry a dead foetus for seven days because doctors did not want to remove it for fear of harming its twin. The twin subsequently also died, and both foetuses were removed two days later.
The hospital then called in a priest to conduct a funeral for them, according to the family. But Agnieszka herself subsequently fell ill, with what her family believe was sepsis, a life-threatening response by the body to infection. After later being transferred to a different hospital, she died soon after.
“We appeal for justice and redress for the death of our wife, mother, sister and friend,” wrote her family in their appeal. “This is further evidence that the government has blood on its hands.”
This afternoon, the hospital that had initially treated Agnieszka confirmed the circumstances of her and her foetuses’ deaths. “After the death of the first child (on 23 December 2021), a wait-and-see approach was adopted as there was a chance to save the second child,” it said in a statement issued to Onet.
“Despite the doctors’ efforts, the second foetus died as well,” it continued. “A decision was then immediately made to terminate the pregnancy…[and] on 31 December it became possible to perform a miscarriage under general anaesthesia.”
Subsequently, after Agnieszka fell ill, “our doctors took all the necessary diagnostic and therapeutic measures, but unfortunately, the patient’s condition made it impossible to save her life”, wrote the hospital, which noted she tested positive for coronavirus on 23 January. She died yesterday, 25 January.
The hospital concluded its statement by saying that it had “taken all possible and required actions to save the lives of the children and the patient” and that “doctors’ behaviour was not influenced by anything else other than medical considerations and care for the patient and her children”.
The prosecutors’ office in the city of Częstochowa, where the events took place, today announced that it had opened an investigation into two potential crimes: exposing a patient to the risk of losing their life, and manslaughter.
Prosecutors would interview family members and hospital staff, as well as secure medical documentation and the results of a post-mortem, said spokesman Tomasz Ozimek, quoted by Wirtualna Polska.
Activists believe that the near-total abortion ban introduced at the start of last year has made doctors reluctant to carry out terminations for fear of prosecution. In many cases, they argue, this has resulted threats to the health and even lives of pregnant women.
Protests are already being organised this evening in cities throughout Poland under the title “Not a single one more”, reports Gazeta Wyborcza. The same slogan was used during last autumn’s protests.
Conservative supporters of the abortion restrictions respond that, even in its new tightened form, the law explicitly allows terminations to be carried out if the pregnancy threatens the life or health of the mother. They argue that, when tragedies such as these happen, it is the result of medical error, not the law.
One of Poland’s leading anti-abortion campaigners, Kaja Godek, today accused pro-choice activists of “once again preying on tragedy” by “instrumentalising the death of a pregnant woman for their political stratagems and pro-abortion campaigns”.
After the similar case of a woman, Iza, who died last year, an investigation attributed her death to medical error. In response, the health ministry issued instructions to hospitals on how to act in such cases.
Main image credit: Grzegorz Celejewski / Agencja Wyborcza.pl
Daniel Tilles
Daniel Tilles is editor-in-chief of Notes from Poland. He has written on Polish affairs for a wide range of publications, including Foreign Policy, POLITICO Europe, EUobserver and Dziennik Gazeta Prawna.
27 Comments
Jarek
Jarek on January 26, 2022 at 6:43 pm
The first baby died on Dec 23 and both were aborted on Dec 31st. She caught COVID three weeks later and passed away a few days after that. The headline and opening paragraphs are extremely misleading, especially since not everyone reads the entire article.
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James
James on January 26, 2022 at 9:52 pm
I find it unbelievable that you’re actually trying to justify a full eight days of inaction because of some highly unlikely possibility that the second baby could be saved. If the abortion had been performed earlier, she’d have lived. Down with religious fundamentalism.
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Jan
Jan on January 27, 2022 at 1:29 am
Goofy James this has nothing to do with religious fundamentalism
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Jarek
Jarek on January 27, 2022 at 7:38 am
I never said that. I am just saying the author is implying the woman died as a direct result of the attempt to save the twin. The fact is she passed almost a month later, and COVID had something to do with it. Even if they aborted right away, it is unknown if the situation would be the same.
One thing I don’t know is if she got the the sepsis from the pregnancy or weeks later because COVID, which would change the situation (why was she in the hospital for 3 additional weeks?). But based on the facts presented, blaming this directly on the pregnancy is a stretch, at least until more information comes out.
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Isabelle
Isabelle on January 31, 2022 at 2:28 am
Sepsis was not because of covid for sure. And the 3 weeks are 3 weeks or more of septic state, the body trying to fight, and the covid added more load and suffering. The earlier tou treat sepsis the better prognosis. The more you let it untreated the harder it ia for the body to cope and covid came to conplicate it more but obviously there was a serious delay of proper managment- first remove the cause of sepais (in this case the dead fetus) and prompt intravenous antibiotics to fight the diffuse infection and of course supportive therapy.
Im writing this being a doctor.
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Jarek
Jarek on January 27, 2022 at 7:42 am
Also, unless you are a doctor with experience delivering babies, you have no more a claim to what is the best prodecures then your self proclaimed religious fundamentalists. It has been made perfectly clear doctors should abort if the woman’s life is ever threatened and doctors won’t be held responsible unless an obviously bad decision is made. The doctor made the decisions to try to save the second child, not a religious fundamentalists.
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pbO
pbO on January 27, 2022 at 10:04 am
The Covid didn’t trigger the septis, it aggravated it and finished her meanwhile she was already in a very fragile condition BECAUSE of the ramping septis that was already installed and treated.
– What about READING the article correctly, Jan & Jarek.
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Jan
Jan on January 27, 2022 at 10:54 pm
Picking a fight with another Jan. whiny pBO can’t catch a break LOL.
Jarek
Jarek on January 28, 2022 at 2:14 am
The article doesn say if the woman got sepsis before or after getting COVID. This is not an excuse of course, but results in two completely different scenarios, and facts matter.
Bob
Bob on January 27, 2022 at 9:48 pm
COVID doesn’t cause sepsis ya liar
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Jarek
Jarek on January 28, 2022 at 2:22 am
Yes it can. A 1 minute search would show you this:
https://www.google.com/search?q=can+covid+cause+sepsis&oq=can+covid+cause+sepsisREPLY
Ted
Ted on January 28, 2022 at 1:10 pm
Death after two days from having Covid is not sepsis via Covid. Sepsis is treatable if caught in time esp in a young healthy individual. However, leaving dead tissue inside an individual the chances of getting sepsis are exponentially higher. An abortion/miscarriage does not require three weeks in a hospital, it is a day procedure. There would be no reason to keep her unless she had developed a secondary infection. It is also highly likely the sepsis killed the other baby. If they had performed a removal of the dead baby, the risk of sepsis would have been exponentially lower and she likely would have survived along with the other baby. It is absolutely the law that caused this, we would never run that risk here, we always remove the dead tissue as infection is absolutely imminent if you do not.
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Mel
Mel on February 3, 2022 at 4:26 am
Sepsis is more serious than COVID for most people- and what actually killed her, I’m sure.
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Barbara
Barbara on January 27, 2022 at 2:52 am
It is not “highly unlikely that the second baby could be saved.” That one twin survives is quite common. Don’t make up and spread medical misinformation.
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Bob
Bob on January 27, 2022 at 10:02 pm
Not in this situation. You are wrong.
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Jarek
Jarek on January 28, 2022 at 2:16 am
You need to look at the decisions at the time they were made with the information available to the doctor. “Not is this situation” is useless when judging decisions that were made before the fact.
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Barbara
Barbara on January 27, 2022 at 2:54 am
It is very common that one twin survives. Please don’t make up and spread medical misinformation.
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pbO
pbO on January 27, 2022 at 10:06 am
Twins died.
Woman died.
Where is your fundamentalist win here, Barbara ?
.
Your mindset is inhuman and disgusting.
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Barbara
Barbara on February 2, 2022 at 2:26 am
To quote from Jan above, this has nothing to do with fundamentalism, and to address your mindset, this is not a game for the winning. You are welcome to the last word.
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Bob
Bob on January 27, 2022 at 11:56 am
The law as it stands created the situation, you can argue all you like about the if’s and whys, the fact remains that if the the law wasn’t so arcane then fewer women would suffer or even die.
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Jarek
Jarek on January 28, 2022 at 2:17 am
The hospital literally said the law has nothing to do with the decisions made.
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Bob
Bob on January 29, 2022 at 2:00 pm
Like they would have the balls to say anything else!
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Shroomie
Shroomie on January 31, 2022 at 8:30 pm
your comment is literally the only good one here
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Staszek
Staszek on January 27, 2022 at 1:23 pm
PiS and the Polish catholic numb skulls must be very pleased with themselves,
rubbing their hands with joy.
Basically they couldn’t care a toss about anyone as long as your a sheep.
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Mike
Mike on January 28, 2022 at 3:28 am
She was sacrificed by leftist doctors for the abortion cause. Hippocratic oath, what’s that?
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Viola
Viola on January 28, 2022 at 10:14 am
She did died from infection (sepsis) as result of waiting.
Covid is the cover up for everything this days. Video made by her friend or relative clearly showed that she touching her talking to her asking her if she is going to make it.
With covid situation nobody will be allowed visitors to come see her and touching her. Doctors waited to long. Mother life should be priority over unborn child no matter what a specially she was mother of three children.
When they will mandate vasectomy??? That of course will be not human…
Why only woman has to suffer??
and literally take all the risk and in the end paid with own life.
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Jarek
Jarek on January 28, 2022 at 8:17 pm
https://oko.press/dr-socha-rodzina-myslala-ze-wydobycie-martwego-plodu-uratuje-zycie-agnieszki-ale-to-nieprawda/It’s funny how those demanding to wait for more facts to come out are now religious fundamentalists. Makes sense considering the declined of the Christian monarchies coincided with the end of the age of enlightenment. But I’m sure the secular fanatics will come up with another excuse.
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