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The human rights of women include their right to have control over and decide freely and responsibly on matters related to their sexuality including sexual and reproductive health, free of coercion, discrimination and violence. Equal relationships between women and men in matters of sexual relations and reproduction, including full respect for the integrity of the person, require mutual respect, consent and shared responsibility for sexual behaviour and its consequences.
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Here you can find a link to the first part of the presentation on reproductive rights in Central and Eastern Europe, especially in Poland, Lithuania and Slovakia. It addresses the right to abortion, sexuality education and contraception by Wanda Nowicka at AWID Forum.
Second part of Wanda Nowicka presentation is available here. Oral statement during plenary on the Contexts of Our Organizing by Wanda Nowicka can be heard at www.awid.org. |
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POLISH REPRO NEWS 1/2010
Federation for Women and Family Planning, Poland, www.federa.org.pl
8 March 2010
Federation for Women and Family Planning welcomes the decision of the Court of Appeal of Katowice.
On the 5th of March the Court of Appeal rejected the appeal and confirmed the earlier verdict in the case Alicja Tysiąc against “Gość Niedzielny”. Accordingly with the earlier verdict, the catholic weekly „Gosc Niedzielny” and the Archdiocese of Katowice was condemned to publicly apologize to Alicja Tysiac for having compared her to Nazi criminals and for their hate speech, and to pay her a compensation of 30 000 zloty (aprox. 8 000 Euros) plus all the legal charges. The verdict is legally binding.
Alicja Tysiąc was refused abortion although continuation of pregnancy could severely damage her eyesight. According to the Polish law, which allows abortion only in limited circumstances, a woman has the right to terminate pregnancy if the pregnancy puts her health or life at risk. Alicja Tysiąc complained that the denial of access to abortion despite her health problems violated her right to respect for private life and the prohibition of inhuman and degrading treatment under the European Convention on Human Rights. Alicja Tysiąc won the case against the Polish Government in the European Court of Human Rights in 2007. Subsequently, “Gość Niedzielny” published an editorial condemning the court's decision and drawing comparisons between the horrors committed by the Nazis and Ms. Tysiąc’s abortion. Ms. Tysiąc brought the case against the weekly and, as a consequence, the weekly was ordered to publish a court-dictated apology. “Gość Niedzielny”appealed the ruling in 2009.
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POLISH REPRO NEWS 7/09
Federation for Women and Family Planning, Poland, www.federa.org.pl
22 July 2009
A 25-year-old pregnant woman from Piła died of septic shock caused by sepsis before being fully examined by a doctor. Her mother is currently an applicant before the European Court of Human Rights represented by Ms M. Gąsiorowska and Ms B. Namysłowska-Gabrysiak, lawyers cooperating with the Federation for Women and Family Planninng. In May 2004, the woman was informed that she was between 4 and 5 weeks pregnant. Prior to or early during her pregnancy she developed ulcerative colitis (UC). She was repeatedly admitted to a number of hospitals (in Piła, Poznań and Łódź). Certain examinations such as a colonoscopy and full endoscopy, which would have made it possible to gather more information on the location and extent of the problem, were not performed because the doctors were afraid of endangering the life of the foetus. She was given pharmacological treatment (for example, intravenous and oral administration of steroids and antibiotics). In July she was diagnosed with an abscess. Three operations to remove it were performed. During her stay in a hospital in Piła a doctor said to her: “it is absurd to treat an abscess for a whole week. [the woman] is too busy with her bottom, instead of taking care of something else”. Mother of the woman and her fiancée urged the doctor at the clinic in Łódź to commence any necessary treatment, irrespective of the consequences for the life of the foetus, to save the woman’s life. These demands produced no result. The woman lost the foetus on 5 September 2004. On 29 September 2004 she died of septic shock caused by sepsis. The woman’s mother asked the Łódź District Prosecutor to institute criminal proceedings into the circumstances of the applicant’s daughter’s death, in September 2008 the District Court discontinued the proceedings. In June 2005 the Regional Agent for Disciplinary Matters (Okręgowy Rzecznik Odpowiedzialności Zawodowej) instituted disciplinary proceedings against the doctors who had treated the woman. After consulting several experts and hearing witnesses, it concluded that there was no evidence of medical malpractice. In September 2007 the woman’s mother brought a compensation claim in the Łódź District Court against the M. Pierogow Regional Specialist Hospital in Łódź. The civil proceedings are still pending. For more information go to:
http://cmiskp.echr.coe.int/tkp197/view.asp?action=html&documentId=852028&portal=hbkm&source=externalbydocnumber&table=F69A27FD8FB86142BF01C1166DEA398649
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POLISH REPRO NEWS 1/09
Federation for Women and Family Planning, Poland, www.federa.org.pl
22 January 2009
Debate on the draft of bioethical bill in Poland. Polish public debate on in vitro procedures started back in 2007 and in the first phase it was concentrated on the problem of financing infertility treatments. Leftist politicians started lobbying for the idea of subsidizing in vitro procedures with tax public funds and the Polish Church published a letter to the faithful in which bishops reiterated the teaching on in vitro as a sophisticated form of abortion. The Prime Minister decided to set up a special committee to examine the question in detail. The working group of lawyers, physicians, biologists and philosophers were to create a draft of a bill regulating IVF procedures as well as prepare the Polish government’s position regarding the bioethics convention of the Council of Europe. Poland signed the bioethics convention in 1999, but has not ratified it yet.
As a result, Jarosław Gowin conservative MP of the ruling party Civic Platform (PO) and a chair of the special committee was authorized by the Prime Minister to prepare the draft law based on the results of conservative part of the committee which was split on liberals and conservatives and prepared two different sets of recommendations.
According the Gowin’s draft, IVF procedures would be available only for sterile married couples. The proposed draft stipulated, among many controversial provisions, a ban on creating surplus embryos, preimplantation diagnostics and sperm banks. The infertility treatments would be unavailable neither for couples living together nor single parents.
The project invoked heated public debate, with the extremist right wing announcing the presentation of the bill introducing complete ban of the IVF procedures. The Catholic Church, traditionally interfering with women’s reproductive rights, restated the opposition to artificial insemination and called catholic deputies not to support it and then changed its position declaring the support for the restrictive bill, as minimal protection is better than none. The Prime Minister, Donald Tusk tended to avoid revealing his stance but he declared that the assisted reproduction treatments should be subsidized. The question remains what procedures would be subsidized and to whom. The PO deputies who disagreed with the Gowin’s draft decided to revise it as representative for the entire party.
The maneuvers of politicians have been accompanied by increasing social protests like a letter of scientists and intellectuals to the Prime Minister published by a daily Gazeta Wyborcza or demonstrations if front of the Parliament held by feminist organizations.
The process of the preparation of the draft has been monitored by the Federation for Women and Family Planning. The Federation initiated the collection of signatures under the petition against the draft of the bioethical bill. This protest endorsed by over 30 organizations was already signed several thousands individuals. Moreover, the Federation coordinates works of the Special Task Force of experts working currently on the elaboration of the civic draft law. Additionally, Social Agreement of Support of the Civic Project was formed and it is currently collecting signatures in order to introduce the civic draft in the Parliament (100 thousand signatures is required for the presentation of the draft).
POLISH REPRO NEWS, 2 (21) /07
April 2007
20/03/2007 Alicja Tysiac won with the Polish Government. On 20th of March the European Court of Human Rights announced it’s verdict in favour of Alicja Tysiac – Polish woman who was denied an access to abortion although the pregnancy posed a real threat to her health. The court decided that Poland has violated Article 8 (Right to respect for private and family life) of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms. Poland is urged to pay compensation to the women.
Strasbourg’s decision coincides with the hot debate on access to abortion in Poland. There is a political initiative to change the Constitution by incorporating the phrase from the moment of conception into Article 38 on the right to life and Article 30 on the right to dignity, that will lead to further restrictions of the one of the most restrictive anti-abortion laws in Europe. Most probably, the Polish Parliament will vote on this amendment next week. It is difficult to gauge how Tysiac’s case will affect MEP’s decision. Alicja Tysiac is a living example of the discriminatory nature if the existing law in more and more conservative Poland. The anti-abortion law is much more stricter de facto than de jure. Tysiac’s example illustrates also severe consequences of restrictive law that Polish women experience on the daily basis: their human rights are violated, as European Court of Human Rights’ verdict confirms.
The winning applicant – Alicja Tysiac – is a mother of three children, who has been suffering from very serious vision impairment and degeneration of the retina from the early childhood. She was classified as a second-degree disability and had difficulties with finding appropriate job. Another pregnancy was very risky for her poor health condition, but she was denied her right to undergo legal abortion (it is acceptable in Poland under following circumstances: when the pregnancy results from a crime and when the pregnancy threatens women’s health or life). The labour of the third child resulted for Alicja in further deterioration of her eyesight and classification of the first degree disability.
“The victory of Alicja is not surprising for us” – said Wanda Nowicka, President of the Polish Federation for Women and Family Planning, organization that supported Alicja since 1999. “We knew from the very beginning that her rights have been violated. We are happy that the European Court of Human Rights agreed with us”.
Moreover, Tysiac was supported by the following national and foreign organizations: Interight, Center for Reproductive Rights and Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights (Poland).
POLISH REPRO NEWS, 1 (20) /07
March 2007
Protection of dignity from the moment of conception most probably incorporated into Polish Constitution. On Thursday, 1st of March, Special Parliamentarian Committee that works on the proposal to amend the Constitution in order to totally criminalize abortion, approved the amendment of article 30 in the Polish Constitution.
Abovementioned constitutional article ensures the protection of dignity and the Parliamentarian Committee reached a consensus to incorporate the phrase from the moment of conception into it. The amendment was proposed by Dariusz K³eczek, representative of the ruling party Law and Justice. In the soon future, the Committee will also vote on the proposal to amend article 38 on protection of life of every human being, so it protects unborn life as well.
The political initiative to totally ban abortion in Poland is now gradually implemented. At present, approved by the Parliamentarian Committee amendment of the Constitution will be voted in Sejm (Lower House of Parliament). Since far right-wing political forces are in majority, they support for total criminalization of abortion is most probable.
POLISH REPRO NEWS, 9 (19) /06
November 2006
Limiting access to contraception by law. The political initiative to totally ban abortion in Poland is now followed by the debate on contraception. Members of the Parliamentarian Committee for Family and Women’s Rights (CFWR) are developing National Programme for Family Support that is due to be implemented in 2007. One of the ideas is to limit access to contraception by law.
The parliamentarians claim that Polish family is endangered, because the rate of births decrease every year. Thus they plan to restrict the law on contraceptives, that stays in stark contrast with NGOs efforts to make contraceptives more accessible.
Members of the CFWR believe that hormonal pills cause infertility so the access to it has to be further restricted, although women in Poland can get oral contraceptives only on prescription. Moreover, pills are not subsidized from the state budget at all, creating an economic barrier for many Polish families.
Parliamentarians now develop plan for actions, that have to be undertaken to prevent women from using hormonal pills. Firstly, they propose to organize a social campaign to convey a message of negative aspects of hormonal pills. There is also a proposal to mark oral contraceptive with the note “harms your health”, as it is with cigarettes. What is more, there is a political will to persuade doctors to limit the prescriptions on pills by referring to the side effects that women might experience. Besides, some members of the CFWR recommend even restricting access to condoms, claiming that using it causes women’s fertility.
Polish Federation for Women and Family Planning strongly opposes legal limitation of access to contraception – This will only increase a number of unsafe abortions in the underground – said Wanda Nowicka, president of the Federation.
POLISH REPRO NEWS, 8 (18) /06
November 2006
Anti-Choice activist accuses the Polish Federation for Women and Family. Lukasz Wrobel, well-known Polish anti-choice activist notified the prosecutor office in Warsaw of the suspicion of committing a crime by the Polish Federation for Women and Family Planning. According to Wrobel, the Federation is involved in the international mafia of pharmaceutical drugs smugglers. Wrobel claims, that as a result, hundreds of women and thousands of children died in Poland. However, the details of the case have not been revealed.
Wrobel has been active in anti-choice movement before. He became well-recognized by organizing extremely drastic exhibition “Choose life” that was presented in the streets of several Polish cities. In the exhibition, the images of human fetuses were confronted with war victims children, as well as children of Holocaust.
Recently Wrobel established a Monitoring Center for Abortion Mafia (MCAF). Now he decided to combat what he calls ‘abortion business’. The main aims of the MCAF is to collect all the information regarding underground abortions: addresses of doctors performing abortions and names of people involved in criminal activity within the abortion mafia. All the gathered data will be then handed to the public prosecutor’s office.
The Polish Federation for Women and Family Planning has not received any official notification from the public prosecutor’s office. “We only learnt about the complain from media” – said Wanda Nowicka, president of the Polish Federation for Women and Family Planning.
POLISH REPRO NEWS, 7 (17) /06
October 2006
Protection of the unborn life and ban on euthanasia in the Polish Constitution? A real threat of further restrictions on the anti–abortion law in Poland is present. According to the existing bill, termination of pregnancy is legal to save women’s life and health, when the fetus is badly deformed or when the pregnancy results from a crime. Although the law is already restrictive, there is a political initiative to make abortion fully illegal.
The League of Polish Families (LPR) political party submitted to Sejm (Lower House of the Parliament) the bill of the amendment of the article 38 of the Polish Constitution.
Article 38 states that “The Republic of Poland shall ensure the legal protection of the life of every human being”. The LPR’s proposal is to add the phrase “from the moment of conception” at the end of the sentence that would mean a total ban on abortion in Poland. In response, the left-wing party Democratic Left Alliance applied for the annul of this initiative in order to maintain the current abortion law. This was not successful since the vast majority of MPs voted against it and asked the Special Committee to work on the bill.
Most likely, the next reading of the bill will take place in the middle of January 2007 but still the outcome of it is unpredictable. However, beyond any shadow of a doubt, a threat of the total ban on abortion in Poland is real and vivid. What is even more, LPR announced that during the second reading, the incorporation of the phrase from the moment of conception till the natural death into Article 38 will be proposed.
If you oppose political initiative to totally ban abortion in Poland, please sign up our open letter.
POLISH REPRO NEWS, 6 (16) /06
October 2006
The initiative to totally ban abortion in Poland alarms GUE/NGLThe fifth largest European parliamentary group, Confederal Group of the European United Left – Nordic Green Left (GUE/NGL), in the collaboration with the vice – chairwomen of the Parliamentary Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality (FEMM) endorsed the letter to the President, Sejm and Senate of the Republic of Poland concerning the proposal to introduce constitutional protection of the unborn life.
Recently, the League of Polish Families (LPR) political party, which is in coalition with the Law and Justice (PiS) ruling party, proposed the introduction of the constitutional protection of the unborn life. The Article 38 of the Polish Constitution states that “The Republic of Poland shall ensure the legal protection of the life of every human being”. LPR’s idea is to integrate the phrase “from the moment of conception” into article 38. In other words, the termination of the pregnancy would not be available even if the life or health of the women is threatened; or if the pregnancy results from crime.
On 22th September 2006 the chairmen of the European Parliamentary Group – Confederal Group of the European united Left – Nordic Green Party (GUE/NGL) – Mr Francis Wurtz sent the letter to the President of the Republic of Poland, Sejm and Senate presenting the group’s concern of the LPR’s initiative. The letter is supported by the Parliamentary Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality.
To find the GUE/NGL / FEMM Letter please follow the link.
POLISH REPRO NEWS, 5 (15) /06
October 2006
Secretary General of the Council of Europe concerned of the homophobia in Poland. The Director of the National In-Service Teacher Training Center (NITTC), Miroslaw Sielatycki, was dismissed by the Minister of National Education, Roman Giertych, in June 2006. Giertych is a very controversial figure on the Polish political scene. His election raised a wave of protests. Giertych is a leader of the League of Polish Families (LPR) – openly homophobic, fundamentalist, and radical political party. Furthermore, Giertych established All-Polish Youth, ultra right – wing, nationalistic organization that violently opposes women’s and LGBT demonstrations. The activists of this group are currently present in the parliament and the government. According to the latest news – also in the NITTC.
The NITTC is the most prominent state – funded agency in Poland that deals with the development of national system of teacher training. Sielatycki administered this agency of the Ministry of National Education for years and the removal from the office raised a protest of the International Teachers Association. Furthermore, this controversial, wrongful dismissal alarmed Terry Davis, Secretary General of the Council of Europe. The official reason for dismissal – as Giertych claims – was the fact that the NITTC issued the Polish version of the Council’s official publication Compass – A manual on Human Rights Education with Young People (2002). This guidebook for teachers and volunteers working with youth was issued on the 50 anniversary of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms. It was recommended by all Ministers of National Education of the previous cadency. Only Giertych has serious objections to Compass.
One of the issues elaborated in the aforementioned manual is the discrimination based on sexual orientation. The Compass gives hints on how to deal with this problem and how to work with pupils to eliminate prejudices. Apparently, this topic appeared to be a real bone of contention. Current Polish Minister of National Education found it unacceptable and improper. Giertych concluded that the Compass promotes homosexuality and sent home Sielatycki, who was responsible for publishing it for Polish teachers. Teresa £ecka, who previously taught mainly religion at school, took over the position. She believes that “active homosexuality is contrary to human nature” . When asked whether it was appropriate to discuss homosexuality at schools she responded: “improper patterns must not be present at schools, because the objective of the school is to explain the difference between good and evil, beauty and ugliness (…) school has to explain that homosexual practices lead to drama, emptiness and degeneracy”.
Recently, a very well known from his fascist views, member of All Polish Youth – Tomasz Poletek – became £ecka’s cooperator. He is not an official employee of NITTC but has an access to all its documents. It is anticipated that Poletek, as a lawyer, will be Giertych’s attorney in the trail that will investigate the case of Sielatycki’s dismissal. NITTC’s employees are disgusted and outraged. On Friday, the vice-director Katarzyna Koszewska resigned from the position. “I will not sign my name under the actions that are dictated by All – Polish Youth” – said Koszewska.
The Council of Europe did not leave Giertych’s astonishing decision with no reaction. Terry Davis, Secretary General asked the Polish Government to justify and explain the dismissal of Sielatycki. He also presented anxiety about “some politics promoting homophobia (…) and homophobic behaviours being accepted by the Government”. Davis claims that the Compass reflects basic European values, among others, the culture of tolerance. Education plays a key role here and Compass is a very valuable tool for teacher who educate young people in the field of human rights. Secretary General is not satisfied with the explanation provided by the Polish Government. – (…) presented arguments are insufficient to diffuse my concern of homophobic behaviours accepted by the Government in Poland, I am afraid – claims Terry Davis in the Open Letter published in Gazeta Wyborcza – one of the most prominent Polish newspaper.
The dismissal of Sielatycki is not an isolated instance of homophobia presented on the governmental level. Current president of Poland, Lech Kaczynski, at the time when he was at the position of the mayor of Warsaw did ban the peaceful “March of Equality”, that was co-organized by homosexuals by referring to the peril of street fights, which was completely unjustified. Progressive circles argued that this was a blatant violation of the freedom of assembly. The president and the prime minister also officially oppose the legalization of same – sex partnerships. The declared policy is pro – family and promotes traditional gender roles, as well as traditional model of family. Gays and lesbians are certainly excluded from this perspective.
Ban on abortion may soon be even stricter. 2 August, Warsaw. In a few weeks, the League of Polish Families (LPR) will propose a draft law to further restrict anti-abortion law in Poland. According to Wojciech Wierzejski, Vice-president of LPR and former Member of the European Parliament, abortion for medical reasons, when a woman’s health is threatened, should be banned.
“Abortion on medical grounds cannot be used as a precedent to kill a human being. It is unacceptable that abortion could be granted if pregnancy threatens a woman’s eyesight. It must be eliminated.”
Wierzejski alluded to the famous case of Alicja Tysiac which is now pending in the European Court for Human Rights. Ms. Tysiac, a Polish woman, was forced to carry her third pregnancy to term in spite of the fact that her eyesight was in danger. Her eyesight eventually worsened as a result of delivery.
According to the present abortion bill, abortion is legal to save a woman’s life and health, when the fetus is badly deformed or when the pregnancy is a result of a crime.
The LPR is planning to consult with the Catholic clergy on the draft law.
The LPR president, Roman Giertych, is now Vice Prime Minister of the Polish government and Minister of Education. Last year, Maciej Giertych, Roman Giertych’s father and member of the European Parliament, organized a radical anti-abortion exhibition in the European Parliament in Strasbourg.
Wanda Nowicka
POLISH REPRO NEWS, 3 (13) /06
August 2006
POLISH REPRO NEWS, 2 (12) /06
March 2006
A draft proposal to set up a National Center for Media Monitoring. The leading Polish party Law and Justice (PiS) plans to set up a National Center for Media Monitoring. This proposal is very controversial due to some forms of discrimination over mainstream media on the side of PiS while favoring religious media. Media as well as human rights activists are afraid that this institution may threaten the independence of the media. Many editors-in-chief expressed their anxiety about the limitation of the freedom of speech. The Center would invigilate the journalists work: the way they collect data and information, as well as survey their biographies. Moreover, it would inspect the financial resources.
The proposal of setting up a National Center for Media Monitoring appears very controversial if we take into account previous actions of Law and Justice related to media. Newsweek’s investigation proved that in 2001, when present mayor of Poland, Lech Kaczynski, chaired the Ministry of Justice, two of the journalists from the leading Polish daily paper, Rzeczpospolita were regularly spied by especially established prosecutor’s body. Their telephone billings were monitored and the informers were questioned. Why journalists were supervised by undercover agents? ‘To verify the way they collect data’- claims Kaczynski. These events shed a new light on the governmental initiative to set up a National Center for Media Monitoring.
POLISH REPRO NEWS, 1 (11)/06
January 2006
Benedictus XVI entrusts Polish President with the Mission. 26.01.2006, Vatican. Yesterday at the first foreign trip of the President of Poland, the pope Benedictus XVI entrusted Mr. Lech Kaczyñski with the mission of promoting Christian values in Europe. The pope sees the importance of this task in the context of growing hostility against the Church in many European countries.
President Kaczynski declared that the present collaboration of the Polish Church and the state will be very good and close. He invited the pope to Poland for May 2006.
Disturbing Nomination. 27.01.2006, Warsaw. The Polish Parliament elected last night a new Ombudsman for Human Rights – Mr. Janusz Kochanowski, PhD – highly controversial lawyer of Warsaw University who is known for his often inappropriate approach to human rights. For example, he is well-known as a supporter of capital punishment. He was against gay pride parades which last year were banned in some towns in Poland. Good news is that recently the Constitutional Tribunal founded the delegalization of gay pride marches unconstitutional.
Moreover, Mr. Kochanowski is actively involved in current politics. He ran to the European Parliament as a candidate of the present Polish ruling party – Law and Justice (PiS) who nominated him to the Ombudsman position. His nomination raises concerns about his objectiveness and independence from political his promoters. Human rights organizations and advocates are worried that the status of human rights in Poland might further deteriorate due to this nomination.
This nomination is one of many controversial personal decisions of PiS who is currently appointing his people to every institution and board. Their nominees very often do not meet high professional standards, sometimes are even incompetent but faithful.
POLISH REPRO NEWS, 4 (14) /06
September 2006
Polish Vice Prime Minister calls for the constitutional protection of unborn life. A real threat of further restrictions on the anti–abortion law in Poland is present. According to the existing bill, termination of pregnancy is legal to save women’s life and health, when the fetus is badly deformed or when the pregnancy is a result of a crime. Although the law is already restrictive, there is a political initiative to make abortion fully illegal. Roman Giertych, the Polish Vice Prime Minister also at the position of Minister of National Education and the president of the League of Polish Families (LPR) political party appealed on Saturday to all parliamentarians for their support for the amendment of the article 38 of the Polish Constitution. Article 38 states that “The Republic of Poland shall ensure the legal protection of the life of every human being”. The LPR’s proposal is to add the phrase “from the moment of conception” at the end of the sentence. Giertych claims that the introduction of the constitutional protection of unborn life will be a milestone in realizing John Paul II Testament. He also dared to compare “killing unborn babies” with Holocaust.
The amendment of the Article 38 will be put to the vote in about one week. As for today, Giertych has been already assured by the second Vice Prime Minister, Andrzej Lepper, that his party Self-Defence (Samoobrona) will support the amendment. Both parties, the League of Polish Families and Self-Defence stay in coalition with the last election winning party Law and Justice (PiS). Everything depends on the decision of the PiS now but still its attitude towards the constitutional amendment remains ambiguous and indefinite. One of the prominent members of PiS and the parliamentarian speaker, Marek Jurek stated on Tuesday that indeed there is such a need to guarantee the protection of life from the moment of conception in the Constitution.
The League of Polish Families is known from its nationalistic, fundamental and anti-choice viewpoints. Last year, Maciej Giertych, Roman Giertych’s father and member of the European Parliament, organized a radical anti-abortion exhibition in the European Parliament in Strasbourg.
Polish Federation for Women and Family Planning is organizing action against LPR's initiative. If you would like to support the protest against totally ban abortion in Poland, please sign up our Open Letter: http://www.federa.org.pl/signatures
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