Abortion rights protests planned across Poland after death of pregnant woman

Women’s rights advocates have called for protests in dozens of Polish cities after a woman in her fifth month of pregnancy died of sepsis, the latest such death since a tightening of Poland’s abortion law (Markus Schreiber/AP)

Women’s rights advocates have called for protests in dozens of Polish cities on Wednesday under the slogan “Stop killing us” after a woman in her fifth month of pregnancy died of sepsis, the latest such death since a tightening of Poland’s abortion law.

The protests demanding a liberalisation of the abortion law are scheduled to take place in the capital, Warsaw, and nearly 50 other cities in the afternoon and evening.