“Abortion in defense of life.” On the occasion of Women’s Day in Warsaw organized the seventeenth Manifa – Polish Radio

According to them, despite the current prohibition on abortion, women often opt for abortion, but the conditions under which this takes place, often threaten their health or life. They added that the most vulnerable are women living below the poverty line because they can not afford to finance treatment.

Speaking at Sunday’s demonstration activist women’s circles stressed that in Poland there is practically no access to abortion. Also expressed concerns that there may be more to toughen laws that already – according to them – the de facto does not allow an abortion.

In Poland, according to the law on family planning, human embryo protection and conditions of termination of pregnancy, abortion can be made when the pregnancy poses a threat to the life or health of the pregnant woman, it is a high probability of severe and irreversible impairment of the fetus or an incurable life-threatening disease or when the pregnancy is the result of a criminal act, eg. rape.

The organizers of the marches indicate, however, that very often, even in these situations, abortion is not performed, because the doctors – citing the so-called. conscience clause – refuse to perform the surgery.

Manifa started before the hour. 13 before the Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw. Through the streets Marszałkowska, Świętokrzyska, Nowy Swiat and Krakowskie Suburb, until the Castle Square.

Participants manifestation carry banners with the slogans: “Prekariuszki do not want to give birth,” “We demand legal, free abortion, free crèches and kindergartens” “birth as I want,” “Eliminate unemployment, junk contracts, economic inequality,” “Priests want to victims, princesses want rights.”

 

chant among others “Liberty, equality, abortion on demand.”

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International Women’s Day is a holiday established in 1910 to commemorate the strike of 15 thousand. Women workers textile factory in New York that March 8, 1908 the year demanded voting rights and improve working conditions. The owner closed the factory strike in the factory premises. As a result of the fire that killed 129 women.

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