Anna Liminowicz

Photographer

www.annaliminowicz.pl

NYTimes: "MY LIFE IS IN DANGER"

Location: Warsaw, Poland

Nationality: Polish

Biography: Anna Liminowicz - photographer and reportage author based in Warsaw, Poland. She works regularly with several international publications including The New York Times, The Globe and Mail, The Guardian, NRC and many others. She divides her work... MORE

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Barbara Skrobol visiting the grave of her sister-in-law Izabela Sajbor and her unborn child at a cemetery in Cwiklice, Poland

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Ms. Sajbor wrote a string of distressed text messages to her mother and husband that was shared with The New York Times by her family’s lawyer

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Ms. Sajbor worked at a hair salon, right, in Pszczyna

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The Catholic Church has a strong influence on legislation concerning the family in Poland

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“The ban has done a lot of things,” said Krystyna Kacpura, the president of the Federation for Women and Family Planning. “What it hasn’t done is stop abortions.”

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After Ms. Sajbor’s death set off nationwide protests last year, the hospital said the doctors “did everything in their power” and acted in accordance with Polish law.

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A copy of distressed text messages that Ms. Sajbor wrote to her mother while she was at the hospital

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“The law has a chilling effect on doctors,” said Jolanta Budzowska, a Krakow-based lawyer who represents Ms. Sajbor’s family.

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Justyna Wydrzynska, an abortion-rights advocate, at her office in central Warsaw. She faces up to three years in prison for providing a woman abortion pills.

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Maja Sajbor, Ms. Sajbor’s 9-year-old daughter, with Ms. Skrobol

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Poland Shows the Risks for Women When Abortion Is Banned

Poland’s abortion ban has had many unintended consequences. One is that doctors are sometimes afraid to remove fetuses or administer cancer treatment to save women’s lives.

Written by Katrin Bennhold and Monika Pronczuk.

On assignment for The New York Times.

Poland Shows the Risks for Women When Abortion Is Banned
Poland’s abortion ban has had many unintended consequences. One is that doctors are sometimes afraid to remove fetuses or administer cancer treatment to save women’s lives.
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Poland Shows the Risks for Women When Abortion Is Banned

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