Poland
Thousands of poles are protesting the ban against planned abortion
In Poland, the ruling party, the PiS, and the Catholic Church for a tightening of the already restrictive abortion law. Now staunch resistance against the controversial project.
In front of the Parliament building in the Polish capital Warsaw, thousands of people came together to counter the threat of a tightening of the abortion law Protest. Numerous protesters, including many women, held a wire hanger in the height – as a dramatic Symbol for the brutal abortion methods in earlier times, than desperate women on a life-threatening kind of self-power take-offs. “Admittedly, this is an extreme icon,” said a young protester, but it should be a clear sign.
Demo in Warsaw: Together against a tightening of the abortion law
Had the Demonstration in Warsaw, the left-wing party Razem (Together). On Transparent, proponents of the bill have been referred to as “Taliban” and Poland as “hell for women”. A protester said: “Even the abortion laws of Iran are more liberal than this proposal (the government party). Therefore, we must protest.” Other participants called: “Make Love not PiS” with a view to the right-wing conservative government’s law and justice party (PiS). The PiS and the Catholic Church in Poland will support the draft for a tightening of the abortion law. Similar protests were announced in several other Polish cities.
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In all the parishes, a Letter was read to the faithful, the bishops in their support for a tightening of abortion rules reiterated. It States that it could not stay in the 1993 compromise-law. The bishops demand the total prohibition of abortion. This claim is also supported by the Polish Minister-President Beata Szydlo, the PiS party since the election in October 2015 with an absolute majority ruled.
The in force in Poland’s abortion law is already very restrictive and is one of the sharpest in Europe. It allows abortion only in three cases: In the case of a threat to body and life of the mother, of an established and irreversible serious damage to the embryo as well as in the case of a pregnancy brought about by rape or incest. The planned tightening of the rules, only the life risk for the woman than abortion reason apply.
The Catholic Church had always defended themselves against the Polish abortion law, which had been negotiated in its basic form in the early 90s, in the Parliament. The pressure of the traditional Poland was so great, that pregnant Polish women often illegally or abroad, power take-offs, said the feminist Organisation Federa. In 2014, there have been 1.812 legal abortions in Poland.
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