At least 34,000 women in Poland are known to have sought abortions illegally or abroad since the country introduced a near total ban on terminations a year ago.
On 22 October last year, Poland’s constitutional court ruled that abortions in cases of foetal defects were unconstitutional and that terminations would be allowed only in cases of rape, incest, or if the mother’s health was at risk, which made up only about 2% of legal terminations at the time of the ruling. The law came into effect in January 2021.
According to Abortion Without Borders (AWB), an organisation that helps women access safe abortion services, more than 1,000 Polish women have sought second-trimester abortions in foreign clinics since the country passed draconian new laws.
AWB said its figures are likely to just be a snapshot of the true number of Polish women seeking illegal or foreign abortions in the past year. NGOs have estimated that 80 to 200,000 women a year sought illegal abortions under Poland’s old abortion laws, which still tightly restricted the conditions under which women could seek terminations.
Yep. That is the problem of banning abortion. Women always « aborted » and always will. Either you acknowledge it and allow them to do it easily and in a decent and healthy environment or you admit killing some of them is not your problem.
European neighbors enjoy the pleasure of killing unborn Poles.
OH no don’t downvote me for calling out an age old European tradition.
Oh look an invisible bird landed on my middle finger can you see him sooo pretty lol
Another day, another episode where the Poles or Turks do some crazy 3rd world shit, surprise surprise.
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At least 34,000 women in Poland are known to have sought abortions illegally or abroad since the country introduced a near total ban on terminations a year ago.
On 22 October last year, Poland’s constitutional court ruled that abortions in cases of foetal defects were unconstitutional and that terminations would be allowed only in cases of rape, incest, or if the mother’s health was at risk, which made up only about 2% of legal terminations at the time of the ruling. The law came into effect in January 2021.
According to Abortion Without Borders (AWB), an organisation that helps women access safe abortion services, more than 1,000 Polish women have sought second-trimester abortions in foreign clinics since the country passed draconian new laws.
AWB said its figures are likely to just be a snapshot of the true number of Polish women seeking illegal or foreign abortions in the past year. NGOs have estimated that 80 to 200,000 women a year sought illegal abortions under Poland’s old abortion laws, which still tightly restricted the conditions under which women could seek terminations.
One of the many reasons why you should never elect a party [affiliated to ECR](https://ecrparty.eu/about#family).
Yep. That is the problem of banning abortion. Women always « aborted » and always will. Either you acknowledge it and allow them to do it easily and in a decent and healthy environment or you admit killing some of them is not your problem.
European neighbors enjoy the pleasure of killing unborn Poles.
OH no don’t downvote me for calling out an age old European tradition.
Oh look an invisible bird landed on my middle finger can you see him sooo pretty lol
Another day, another episode where the Poles or Turks do some crazy 3rd world shit, surprise surprise.