For two hours, the men surrounded Jagielska, she said, preventing her from doing her job.
“These are acts of terror against patients, doctors, and hospital administrators,” Poland’s Minister for Equality Katarzyna Kotula told the TVN24 news channel.
Jagielska is not new to abortion protesters. As a doctor performing abortions in one of the countries with the strictest abortion laws in Europe, she has seen her fair share of pro-life demonstrations and online hate.
Her hospital attracts crowds of pro-lifers at least once or twice a week, she said. But on Wednesday things escalated beyond anything she had experienced before.
“We have had many, many pro-life demonstrations in front of the hospital for years, but it never has happened that those people came to the hospital,” she said.
Police said they were called to the scene when “a group of unauthorized people entered the hospital” and “disturbed the operation of the medical facility and the peace of patients,” they said in a post on social media.
