(ANSA) - WARSAW, NOV 06 - Poland returns to the streets against the almost total ban on abortion.
Tens of thousands of protesters protested today in 80 cities across the country, recalling the 30-year-old 22 weeks pregnant who died on September 22 of septic shock after doctors, following the restrictive law on termination of pregnancy enforced since the beginning of this campaign. year, they refused to perform an abortion, despite the fetus being malformed.
According to what was reported by family members and women's rights NGOs, the woman could have been saved with a timely intervention by the health workers.
"The doctors have been waiting for the fetus to die. The fetus is dead, the patient is dead", the family lawyer wrote on Twitter, according to whom it would be the first death as a consequence of the new legislation.
Two doctors involved were suspended and the prosecutor opened an investigation.
"No one else must die," was one of the slogans of the demonstrators, who also observed a minute of silence in Izabella's memory, as identified by local media as the hairdresser who died last month in Pszczyna, southern Poland, leaving behind a daughter of nine years and her husband.
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