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For a week, Polish women have been protesting, in all corners of the country, against the ruling of the Constitutional Court that almost totally prohibits abortion but the one today in the center of Warsaw is perhaps the largest and busiest of the demonstrations in support of women’s right to free choice: thousands in fact gathered in the center of the capital to demonstrate against the sentence that is about to become a new law and that prohibits the use of abortion even in the case of a diagnosis of serious malformations of the fetus.
One of the most restrictive laws in the world.
An additional restriction in addition to the Polish abortion law, which is one of the most severe in the world. In fact, until now the voluntary interruption of pregnancy for women was possible in case of danger to the life of the mother, rape or even malformations of the fetus. From the moment the law comes into force, Polish women will be able to resort to abortion only in case of risk to their life or if the pregnancy is the consequence of a criminal act, such as rape or incest. These cases correspond to only two percent of legal abortions in Poland.
Police deployed for “epidemiological threat”
The government harshly criticized the demonstrations and asked the army for help in dealing with the protests. The security forces are massively deployed in the streets of the capital. In addition, according to the new regulations, the demonstration violates the anti-contagion regulations linked to the coronavirus pandemic, according to which concentrations of more than five people are not allowed. And the National Prosecutor’s Office has threatened to file criminal charges against the organization of the protests for causing an epidemiological threat, for which they face up to eight years in prison. Poland is also blaming the second wave of the epidemic: Nearly 341,000 have been infected with coronavirus since the start of the pandemic, putting the country 24th for infections according to estimates by Johns Hopkins University.
Kasia Smutniak also against the Polish leader
In defense of the rights of Polish women and their free choice in the matter of abortion, actress Kasia Smutniak also spoke on Instagram directly addressing the leader of the Law and Justice party Kaczyński about sadness and horror, I saw that her decisions government has slowly changed the image of my Poland. What my parents fought today was raped and trampled on. My children will pay the consequences of these gigantic setbacks. As a mother, woman and citizen of this country, I say enough! “
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October 30, 2020 (change October 30, 2020 | 21:21)
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