{"id":335616,"date":"2025-08-03T11:29:24","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T16:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=335616"},"modified":"2025-08-02T15:53:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T20:53:21","slug":"polish-legal-group-suspension-license-abortion-survivor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/polish-legal-group-suspension-license-abortion-survivor\/","title":{"rendered":"Polish legal group calls for suspension of doctor\u2019s license for letting abortion survivor die"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In late July 2025, Polish pro-life legal think tank <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/polish-think-tank-defending-life-family-europe\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ordo Iuris<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> filed a report with authorities on the basis of a suspected crime perpetuated by abortionist Dr. Gizela Jagielska and other medical staff at the County Hospital Complex in Ole\u015bnica.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Ordo Iuris report said Jagielska conducted a late-term abortion procedure for a pregnant woman in the 26th week of pregnancy, after which the baby \u2014 who was born alive \u2014 did not receive medical assistance, eventually dying as a result. The group is calling for an immediate suspension of Jagielska\u2019s medical license.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Key Takeaways:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>A pro-life group in Poland is calling for an abortionist&#8217;s license to be revoked after she failed to administer medical care to a 26-week abortion survivor.<\/li>\n<li>The doctor herself testified that the situation occurred, and that she and other staff offered the child palliative care, expecting the baby to die.<\/li>\n<li>This same abortionist committed a 37-week abortion on a baby with brittle bone disease, as was reported in April.<\/li>\n<li>The pro-life group noted that laws have been broken, and that any child born alive, regardless of circumstances, has human rights and should not be left to die.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>The Details:<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In an interview with Polish media outlet Wysokie Obcasy, Dr. Jagielska <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wysokieobcasy.pl\/wysokie-obcasy\/7,163229,31927099,gizela-jagielska-ginekolozka-jako-spoleczenstwo-jestesmy-gotowi.html?disableRedirects=true\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">disclosed<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the circumstances surrounding the abortion, stating how after the child was born alive, medical staff only offered palliative care \u2014 in anticipation of the infant\u2019s death \u2014 instead of administering life-saving treatment.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThere was a brief moment when we did not use potassium chloride. I was present at one such abortion in the 26th week. [\u2026] And let me say this: neither I nor anyone on my staff would ever want to participate in something like this again,\u201d Jagielska admitted.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Adding, Jagielska went on:\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe child is born and we wait for it to die. Of course, we provide palliative care. But that situation only reinforced our conviction that we cannot do this. It\u2019s not what women come to us for.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jagielska has been embroiled in other contentious cases. In April of this year, a Polish media outlet <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/wyborcza.pl\/7,75398,31655606,anita-zamkneli-mnie-na-oddziale-psychiatrycznym-mialam-urodzic.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">reported<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> how Jagielska <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/outrage-poland-baby-disability-abortion-37-weeks\/\">performed an induced abortion at 37 weeks<\/a> of pregnancy at the request of a woman whose unborn son had been diagnosed with brittle bone disease, medically known as <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">osteogenesis imperfecta<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (OI).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>The Response:<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In response to Jagielska\u2019s admission, Ordo Iuris declared:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The doctor\u2019s account shows that a situation arose in which a live-born child did not receive any treatment aimed at saving its life. Instead, only palliative care was provided, which would be appropriate for terminally ill patients whose lives cannot be reasonably prolonged by any available means. <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the case of a premature baby born at 26 weeks of pregnancy who, as Jagielska herself points out, was born alive, the failure to provide any medical intervention may have meant deliberately exposing him to a painful death as a result of respiratory failure.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The group added:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since Dr. Jagielska talks about such events publicly, it means she is convinced of her own impunity. As a society, we cannot accept a situation in which a doctor waits for a newborn to die and then talks about it in the media. Such people should not be allowed to practice medicine, even temporarily, which is why we are demanding that Dr. Jagielska\u2019s license to practice be suspended for the duration of the proceedings, which can be done by both the prosecutor and the medical council.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>It also called for &#8220;all those who calmly watched the child die in agony be punished.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2>The Bottom Line:<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ordo Iuris made clear that Jagielska&#8217;s actions breached the Polish Penal Code, stating that this conduct &#8220;<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">constitutes a crime of failing to provide assistance to a person in immediate danger of death (Article 162 \u00a7 1 of the Polish Penal Code) and exposing a person under one\u2019s care to the risk of death (Article 160 \u00a7 2 of the Penal Code).&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ordo Iuris also noted that any child born alive has full human rights and entitlement to medical treatment. Per Polish medical guidelines, a neonatologist should have acted promptly after the birth of a viable premature infant who needed aid, yet this was not done in the case involving Jagielska.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><b><i>Follow Live Action News on <\/i><\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveactionnewsonline\/\"><b><i>Facebook<\/i><\/b><\/a><b><i> and <\/i><\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/LiveActionOrg\/\"><b><i>Instagram<\/i><\/b><\/a><b><i> for more pro-life news.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In late July 2025, Polish pro-life legal think tank Ordo Iuris filed a report with authorities on the basis of a suspected crime perpetuated by abortionist Dr. Gizela Jagielska and other medical staff at the County Hospital Complex in Ole\u015bnica.\u00a0 The Ordo Iuris report said Jagielska conducted a late-term abortion procedure for a pregnant woman 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