TIME Magazineのインスタグラム(time) - 10月14日 17時00分

Over the last 30 years, 60 countries have liberalized abortion law, with only four rolling back its legality: the U.S., Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Poland.

Officially in 2020, there were seven maternal deaths in Poland. In 2021, there were nine.

Such low figures have persisted for more than a decade, but experts say the data is unreliable.

“Every year we estimate that there are almost three times as many deaths as appear in the statistics. If a patient dies in the intensive care unit, for example, and not in the gynecology and obstetrics department, nothing in the certificate will link her death to the pregnancy,” says Dr. Katarzyna Szamotulska, head of the epidemiology and biostatistics department at the Mother and Child Institute in Warsaw. (Poland’s Ministry of Health declined to answer multiple requests for comment about the reliability of the statistics.)

With doctors reluctant to intervene, infant mortality rates have also risen, says Dr. Gizela Jagielska, the deputy director of the public hospital in Olesnica and a gynecologist who performs many of the few legal abortions that still take place in Poland.

At the link in bio, read six stories that show the human toll of the country's strict abortion laws.

Photographs by Kasia Strek (@kasia_strek) for TIME. Story by Anna Pamula (@annapamulanka)

This project was supported by the Pulitzer Center.

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