Published: 09.10.2013
Decision of the District Court for Warszawa Praga-Południe of September 30th 2013 ended a 10 week lasting drama of Katarzyna Boryc and her family. Two of her children, taken away by the police in July 2013, were released from wrongly ordered foster care. This family tragedy occurred without prior judgment of the court and with flagrant violation of the law by the social care staff and police officers. In early September Ordo Iuris launched its lawsuit intervention program leading before the end of the month to a successful end.
The District Court for Warszawa Praga-Południe acceded to the Ordo Iuris request, indicating no legal ground for holding children in an orphanage. All known facts amounts to the conclusion that children were taken away illegally and without reason. Lawyers are analyzing ways of drawing the legal consequences to persons who are responsible for this flagrant misconduct.
On February 13, the Court of Appeals in Warsaw overturned an earlier verdict convicting Justyna Wydrzyńska, a well-known abortion activist from the so-called Abortion Dream Team, of assisting in a medical abortion.
In March 2023, the Warsaw-Praga Regional Court had sentenced this activist to community service for giving abortion pills to a woman who was pregnant with twins. It was a high-profile case that was reported in the international media.
• The trial of Justyna Wydrzyńska, an activist from the Abortion Dream Team group who was convicted of aiding and abetting a medical abortion, took place in the Court of Appeals in Warsaw.
• The European Parliament will debate the draft recommendations of the EU Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality (FEMM).
On November 8, the Polish Sejm voted on a bill decriminalizing both the performance and the aiding and abetting of illegal abortions. The Left’s radically pro-abortion bill was thus sent for further parliamentary work.
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