(LifeSiteNews) — Three Polish doctors were convicted and sentenced last week for endangering the life of a young pregnant woman named Izabela, who died of sepsis after they attempted to save both her and her unborn child’s life in a case that riled up pro-abortion activists claiming that her death was the result of the country’s near-total ban on abortion.

On July 17, the doctors identified as Andrzej P, Michal M, and Krzysztof P were convicted of directly endangering Izabela’s life and sentenced to prison as well as handed suspensions from practicing medicine, per an Arise News report. The charges against the doctors stemmed from the 2021 incident in which Izabela, who was 22 weeks’ pregnant with an unborn child diagnosed with severe developmental defects, sought medical help, but the doctors were unable to save the child. Sadly, she also died from sepsis.

Izabela’s family and pro-abortion activists have falsely laid the blame for her death on Poland’s strong pro-life laws, sparking massive protests from abortionists across the country.

Andrzej P, who was also charged with involuntary manslaughter, was handed an 18-month prison sentence and a six-year ban from practicing medicine, Michal M was sentenced to 15 months in prison and is also barred from practicing medicine for six years, while Krzysztof P, received a lighter one-year suspended prison sentence and a four-year ban from practicing medicine. Each defendant has maintained their innocence.

Poland currently enforces an almost total ban on abortion, with exceptions in place only for the “life or health of the mother,” or for instances in which a woman becomes pregnant due to a criminal act. In cases of illegal abortions, only the medical staff carrying out abortions, and not the women having them, are subject to prosecution in the country.

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Abortion, the violent destruction of an unborn child in their mother’s womb, is never medically necessary or justifiable, regardless of the horrific circumstances that caused the pregnancy.

Pro-life organizations have slammed the claim that Izabela’s death was caused by Poland’s abortion ban, arguing that the doctors simply neglected to treat her after her child had died, emphasizing that the ban doesn’t prohibit doctors from providing mothers life-saving treatment for sepsis or any other complications that arise from their child’s death in the womb.

“Once again, the false narrative imposed on society by abortion activists, that Izabela’s death was caused by the laws protecting the lives of unborn children in force in Poland in 2021, has been debunked,” Katarzyna Gęsiak, director of the Ordo Iuris Institute’s Center for Medical Law and Bioethics, wrote in an X post.

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“If the doctors had acted in accordance with the law (as amended by the Constitutional Tribunal’s 2020 ruling on abortion) and undertaken to save the woman’s life, as they were obliged to do, there would have been no grounds for their conviction. It’s that simple,” she added.

“The court of first instance found the doctors who provided medical care to Izabela at the hospital in Pszczyna guilty. Once again, the false narrative imposed on society by abortion activists, that Izabela’s death was caused by the laws protecting the lives of unborn children in… https://t.co/lWcOMhl1vV

— Ordo Iuris International (@OrdoIuris_Int) July 17, 2025

Interestingly, the prosecutors on this case agreed with this analysis, determining in 2023 that the country’s abortion laws had no bearing on the doctor’s decisions in Izabela’s untimely death.

In recent years, numerous women’s deaths across the globe have been similarly falsely attributed to pro-life laws. In one American case similar to Izabela’s, a Georgia woman, Amber Thurman, developed a fatal case of sepsis in 2022 following complications from abortion pills.

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The death was attributed far and wide across the media to Georgia law supposedly denying her emergency medical care. However, as explained by Live Action, the sepsis for which Thurman “needed additional care” was allowed to be treated under Georgia law as it only prohibits dilation & curettage (D&C) procedures being used to commit abortions, not to remove the un-expelled remains of an unborn baby after an abortion.