Published: 30.03.2022
At the time when innocent people are being killed every day in Ukraine and millions are struggling to access to basic life needs, the leftist lobby is trying to increase the death toll and insists on introducing abortion on demand and on expanding the access to abortion pills.
A group of left-wing organizations prepared an appeal to the international community to introduce a legal order in Central European countries, including Poland, that is contrary to human rights. Such organizations as Amnesty International, All-Poland Women’s Strike or International Planned Parenthood Federation are among the signatories.
Also the Great Coalition for Equality and Choice (WKRW) bringing together 118 Polish social organizations, including the Federation for Women and Family Planning, Ponton Group, Women’s Rights Centre, Feminoteka or the Childbirth with Dignity Foundation appeals to the Minister of Health- Adam Niedzielski and the President of National Health Fund -Filip Nowak to support Polish gynecologists in terminating pregnancies for Ukrainian women.
We therefore urge the Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki and the Minister Adam Niedzielski to fully reject and publicly condemn the demands of the left-wing organizations which offer the women fleeing Ukraine from death threats to their children to take part in killing unborn Ukrainians, and which demand from the Polish government to abolish the current legal order to make that possible.
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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