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For days they have taken to the streets against the toughening of abortion laws in Poland. “We want to have a choice,” the protesters demand. In Warsaw they stopped traffic. There were also protests in other cities.
In Poland, thousands of people have taken to the streets against the tightening of the abortion law. For them, this is meanwhile “hell for women”, as it is written on the protesters’ posters. You can also read “You have blood on your hands” and “We want to have a choice.”
In Warsaw, young women in particular blocked intersections in the city center and paralyzed traffic. There were protests in other cities for the fifth day in a row. The country has been in turmoil since a ruling by the Constitutional Court. The judicial decision to prohibit abortion in the event of a malformation of the fetus amounts to a total prohibition of abortion, because there are no longer many legal reasons.
Resistance also to the Church
The right-wing conservative PiS party and the Catholic Church have been campaigning for years for such a hardening. You’re almost there, but now you have to receive massive criticism. Priests are insulted and insulted, that was almost unimaginable in this Catholic country.
The church is now promoting de-escalation and dialogue. The president of the Polish Episcopal Conference, Archbishop Stanislaw Gadecki, called for a way to protect “the right to life and the rights of women.” At the same time, he emphasized that vulgar expressions, violence, interruptions in religious services, and desecration are not the right way to go in a democratic state.
Protest actions by women’s rights groups
Under the slogan “Sunday’s Word”, women’s rights groups called for resistance to the toughening of the law in the churches. He accuses the Catholic Church of having contributed significantly to the controversial Constitutional Court ruling.
As a result, religious services in various cities were interrupted with chants and posters. As a result, the Poznan fair had to be discontinued. Several churches and a wall in front of the bishop’s residence in Lublin were dotted with slogans. In front of the Wroclaw bishopric, protesters set up wire hangers, a symbol of dangerous abortion methods.
The “women’s strike”, the opposition group in Poland with the strongest mobilization, has called for more protests, including a general strike by Polish women.
