Protests against the plan to ban all abortion in Poland:

Numerous cities in Poland will be protesting tomorrow against a legislative project completely banning abortions.

Right now, abortion in Poland is illegal except in the following three cases: when the pregnancy is a result of rape or incest; when the life of the pregnant woman is in danger; or when the fetus is severely damaged. This is already one of the most restrictive abortion laws in Europe.

There is a new legislative project that aims to restrict this law even further, making abortion completely illegal. This means that:

– Rape survivors and children will be forced to give birth.

– Women that might die due to their pregnancy will have no way to legally terminate it.

– A miscarriage might be punished with a sentence, as fetal murder will enter the criminal code.

– The state will have the right to bypass a person’s constitutional rights to protect unborn children.

– Since prenatal testing is connected to a very small risk of miscarriage, it will be banned and doctors performing it might face criminal charges.

– The morning-after pill will be categorized as an early abortion tool and thus completely banned (same with IUDs).

People are outraged. The current law, misleadingly called acompromise, was passed in the early nineties to gain political support from the Catholic Church. The new legislative project has full support from the Catholic Church, whose priests are obliged to read a special letter of support during mass tomorrow. Once again, women will be denied basic rights to their bodies, pushed to seek dangerous methods to terminate unwanted pregnancies (clothes hangers, injecting chemicals into their vaginas, punches, etc.).

There are protests in over 15 Polish cities. Ten thousand people are expected to protest in front of Sejm (the Polish Parliament building in Warsaw). The list of cities joining the Sunday protest is growing:

CITIES JOINING THE PROTEST:

Warszawa: https://www.facebook.com/events/249592045385830/

Białystok: https://www.facebook.com/events/885720881536481/new!

Częstochowa: https://www.facebook.com/events/220300961660443/

Gorzów Wielkopolski:https://www.facebook.com/events/972216896202301/ new!

Katowice: https://www.facebook.com/events/540441612801975/

Kielce: https://www.facebook.com/events/493069244210974/

Koszalin: https://www.facebook.com/events/1569962253314697/

Kraków https://www.facebook.com/events/499782146878881/

Lublin: https://www.facebook.com/events/489003887962084/

Łódź: https://www.facebook.com/events/629305593888367/new!

Opole: https://www.facebook.com/events/248067022208142/

Oslo: 2:00 p.m. Polish Ambassy Oslo, Olav Kyrres Plass 1 new!

Poznań: https://www.facebook.com/events/1124003284285568/

Rzeszów: https://www.facebook.com/events/272332806435953/

Szczecin: https://www.facebook.com/events/1684918121761871/

Toruń: https://www.facebook.com/events/1678806435719364/

Trójmiasto: https://www.facebook.com/events/563885360453343/

Wrocław: https://www.facebook.com/events/223340218023178/

Zielona Góra:https://www.facebook.com/events/605470029616735/ new!

Article in Polish / Artykuł po polsku:http://takdlakobiet.pl/aktualnosci/gdzie-i-kiedy-mozna-protestowac-przeciw-zaostrzeniu-ustawy-aborcyjnej/