A final conviction was passed on the death of 30-year-old Isabella of Pszczyna, who died of sepsis in the infirmary in September 2021 as a consequence of pregnancy complications. 3 doctors have heard the conviction of ruthless prison. The case had a loud media tone, doctors were accused of delaying abortion. It is worth asking ourselves whether this judgement is fair, whether it is simply a court-political demonstration on the order of left-wing environments. The trial was classified, so let's trust on available information.
What happened in Pszczyna? (Key facts)
It all happened at an express rate. 30-year-old Isabella went to the infirmary in the 22nd week of pregnancy after premature water departure. In just 24 hours, the condition of the female deteriorated dramatically, septic shock and death. Miss Isabella orphaned a nine-year-old daughter. The media immediately addressed the slogan "Neither 1 more", and the case became a symbol of the conflict of leftist communities with restrictive abortion law.
Importantly, according to media information, the deceased's parent claimed that the daughter did not want to have an abortion, and the autopsy indicated that the baby was healthy. Let us quotes from the media to trust on them. That was the expression of the parent of the deceased in December 2021, a fewer weeks after the tragedy:
"As Barbara besides argued, the autopsy results showed that her daughter's unborn kid was healthy. This baby was 55 years old, so it came out after the autopsy. I don't play 485 as they told her at the infirmary after the ultrasound. Children like that live. I have an autopsy on the baby. It was healthy – convinces Iza's mother. - My daughter believed the baby was healthy. I'm told that this kind of thing makes mistakes. A friend's daughter agreed to have a baby with the same condition. It was besides healthy.’
The prosecution was waiting for the expert's opinion:
"Preliminary autopsy results indicate with advanced probability, as the origin of the patient's death, septic shock after the fetus died and infection, after the premature departure of the fetal waters, as the origin of the fetus' death. However, the decision will be made by an expert who will be appointed after the results have been obtained.tissue collected during the autopsy from the victim and the foetus’ said “SE” proc. Agnieszka Wichara, spokesperson for the Katowice prosecutor's office.
https://wpolitics.pl/community/577481-new-information-in-death--30-year-isabeli-z-pszczynaInterestingly, in addition to the 3 doctors in the ward, Ms. Isabella was besides dealt with by the manager of Pszczyna region Hospital, who was conducting her pregnancy privately. It is hard to believe that her destiny is indifferent to as many as 4 doctors of this hospital, especially erstwhile a female additionally utilized the services of a private infirmary director.
Statistics do not lie: judgement as an aberration
In 2023, the prosecution filed an indictment against 3 doctors, in 2025 the territory Court of Pszczyna had an invalid conviction, and in March 2026 it was mostly upheld (with a sharpening for one) by the territory Court of Katowice. Krzysztof P., Michał M. and Andrzej P. received sentences ruthless prison (1 to 1.5 years) and the prohibition of 4 to 6 years. In addition, procedural costs (after approx. PLN 30 1000 per individual to the attorneys and the State Treasury) were ordered. Additionally, due to the settlement with the infirmary insurer, the household received approx. PLN 2 million.
This conviction is an absolute phenomenon. The D.A.'s statistic are ruthless: about 5-6 1000 medical malpractices are conducted annually, but only approx. 0.6% It ends with a conviction. In most cases doctors are protected by systemic solidarity. You can ignore the textbook symptoms of stroke – as in my mother's, where paralysis and speechlessness were considered “may be epilepsy” – and no consequences would be incurred. Nobody goes to jail. Why, then, did the sentences of ruthless prisons and work bans for six years come here? due to the fact that this case had political potential, which does not have "ordinary" medical errors.
Abortion is no average procedure. It's a kill.
The public debate attempts to bring abortion to the level of average medical services, and it does not. Abortion is not taking a nail out of an ass or giving a vitamin – it is killing human life. It's an irrevocable decision to end a second patient. Doctors in Pszczyna did not deal with a method problem, but with the burden of taking lives, which besides involves responsibility. As long as the child's heart was beating, their ethics and human reflex directed them to fight for both lives. Making criminals of them due to the fact that they hesitated in the face of specified a final decision is rape on their conscience, especially as the mother's relation shows Mrs. Isabella didn't anticipate an abortion, she wanted this baby.
Medical Ethics Code vs. ideological order
Any doctor, regardless of his views, must respect professional ethics. Article 39 of the Medical Ethics Code says:
"When taking medical action in a pregnant woman, the doctor shall besides be liable for the wellness and life of her child".
This was not a situation in which doctors “were worried about” whether they had the incorrect dose. They weren't mean ignorant. They're experts who had to take these principles into account. possibly (because we do not know the justification for excluding disclosure) they were convicted for not having a light hand for abortion. This conviction is simply a signal to others: “We don’t care about your ethics, you gotta have an abortion if there’s any reason you’re going to jail with criminals.”
"Sages" after the injury: Coffee on the desk vs. Front on the ward
The top absurdity is to trust on experts who have the luxury of time. The expert analyses documentation for weeks, "doeducates" on the net and sits over the papers at coffee, knowing the final. It's called reverse prophecy. Meanwhile, the doctor in the ward has many patients. It works under force of time, frequently has minutes to decide in the midst of another duties. Assessing experienced doctors through desk analyses is unfair. Now these people will be sitting in cells with bad guys and degenerates due to the fact that their diagnosis didn't appeal to individual who had months to think about it. The case was not immediately obvious. Any cesarean cut could besides have ended badly for both the kid - 22 weeks premature and the parent during sepsis infection. Of course – a medical mistake or deficiency of due care cannot be ruled out here. But 1 cannot ignore the fact that the case was complicated and the problem (early labour and start of sepsis) was not due to negligence of doctors in the ward. Misassessment in hard situations must not consequence in absolute imprisonment and exclusion from the profession. There are also measures on this – compensation, cut premiums, disciplinary penalties, etc.
Medical standard at week 22 is waiting and antibiotic therapy to give a kid a chance. Discontinuing a pregnancy in a unchangeable state without her mother's explicit consent is simply a crime, the question was it a consent, or was Mrs. Iza just writing to her husband? Doctors in Pszczyna did not ignore the procedure completely due to the fact that she was given antibiotics, but they were convicted due to the fact that they did not foretell that sepsis would abruptly strike with specified force. Of course, they ran after many days, or even years of analyzing papers, easy indicates a critical minute – the doctor on work does not have a glass sphere.
But even the leading expert, prof. Mirosław Wielgoś national consultant in the field of peinatorology, although he had reservations about the actions of Pszczyna doctors, commented on the issue for the media:
"As the expert stressed, changes in the patient's condition were very rapid, and the staff may not have realized their pace. In his opinion, even the correct actions implemented on time could not warrant that the patient would survive."
Corporateity and portfolio drainage: Who will pay for this?
This judgement will have another fatal effect: an even greater claim of the medical community. Doctors who make very good money are now saying, “I want twice as much money for the hazard of absolute jail time if individual doesn’t like my work.” Hospitals are going to pay the bahonese bills for contracts so that anybody wants to hazard their head in the ward. We will all pay for this in contributions and taxes, and doctors will alternatively “insure themselves financially” in case of another demonstration.
Is that a fair sentence?
Poland loses 3 specialists for a fewer years at the minute erstwhile transportation is closed for deficiency of staff. This is surely the success of leftist environments, which have abortion as the main point on the banner.
Personally, I have no uncertainty that this judgement is unjust. There would surely be many another cases where the patient suffered death or failure of wellness through medical negligence, prosecutors refused to deal with the case, and the household did not even hear an apology. I myself had a parent who was taken with an ambulance with a micro stroke to a neurology ward in 1 of the Kraków hospitals. Mom had a collapsed corner of her mouth, a left-hand side weakness. In the ambulance and on the SOR, she slow regained her speech and fitness. For the next day in the ward, it was concluded that it was not a stroke, that it might be epilepsy and that Mom would be discharged. At night, she suffered extended stroke and paralysis on the left side of her body, she was bedridden for many months.
Of course, in cases of medical errors, consequences should be drawn and harm corrected. But sending experienced doctors to prison with bandits and murderers is not justice. This is simply a political demonstration and intimidation of the medical community, and above all the demolition of the sense of justice in Poland.
Will the president pardon the doctors?
President Karol Nawrocki should pardon the doctors. The media run itself and the trial are adequate punishment, and for medical errors the household has received considerable compensation. There is no warrant that if the 3 doctors in the ward were “a forensic expert”, the female would survive. erstwhile the fetus was killed, there was inactive a hazard of the improvement of sepsis and the death of a woman, and the household would stay with nothing – without compensation, possibly with the sense that the infirmary had done what it should have done.
It is worth recalling that in the past, presidents have pardoned people from the criminal underworld, including for killings and fraud. Lech Wałęsa, for example, pardoned the well-known gangster “The Slovak”. Aleksander Kwasniewski pardoned a individual convicted of armed robbery and Andrzej Duda pardoned political colleagues. The pardon of doctors in this situation would be an act restoring common sense.
What about bribery?
I don't defend the medical community., Medical errors should not be tolerated, and statistic show that they are very common. Mistakes should be disciplinaryly enforced and corrected to the victims. However, it is worth comparing the severity of this judgement from Pszczyna with the outrageous impunity for various forms of bribery in the healing industry, besides at the heights of power. From my investigation on the Internet, there was no evidence of a ruthless prison conviction in 2025 for the bribery of a doctor. Yet everyone knows how common this phenomenon is in Poland. Recently, the case of speeding up operations for a fee at the Institute of the Ministry of abroad Affairs in Warsaw, where according to NFZ control, 97% of cancer treatments were carried out at an accelerated rate after the payment of a multi-thousand donation to the foundation at the hospital, which in social reception is perceived as a form of bribery – although it may besides be legal, due to the fact that “to the foundation”. erstwhile doctors in Pszczyna are sent behind bars for a tragic decision-making mistake under force of time, the Marshal of the legislature – Tomasz Grodzki – despite tens of public accusations of witnesses concerning payment for operations – has successfully avoided even being brought before a court for years, protected by political immunity by organization colleagues, and yet in June 2025 the prosecutors led by the minister from the political environment of the talker of the Sejm (KO), dismissed the investigation. This shows even more clearly the absurdity of the conviction from Pszczyna: average doctors in the ward for medical mistake (for which the household received PLN 2 million) are treated as repeaters, while the doctor-politicist, despite the publicity of the case, is not even subject to the judgement of the court.
If anyone doubts that the conviction is to have a political aspect (to be a bully on doctors and lead to liberalisation of abortion) then here is the comment of left-wing MP Catherine Kotuli, Ministry of Equality in Donald Tusk's government
“What killed Iza? No abortion, no T.K.'s sentence, and no doctors' fear.
The territory Court in Katowice present passed a judgement on the death of pregnant Isabella of Pszczyna – 3 doctors heard the punishment of a ruthless prison (from 1 year to 1 and a half years) and prohibitions of performing the profession. They were found guilty of endangering the patient's life, and the conviction besides includes manslaughter.
The doctors waited until the fetus died. This led to septic shock.
It is time to usage this judgement to make changes that will warrant women real safety – regardless of the medical or infirmary perspective.”
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