The Polish Prime Minister announced the liberalization of strict abortion rules within the first hundred days of taking office. “Time is running out and there is no liberalization in sight,” writes the British daily The Guardian.
According to the newspaper, three years ago women took to the streets with banners with the words: “My body, my choice.”
Three years later, the fight against Poland’s draconian abortion laws has moved from the streets to the parliamentary chamber, in what activists describe as an “important” test for the new government.
– we read in the Guardian. The newspaper quotes Kamila Ferenc, head of the FEDERA Foundation for Women and Family Planning, as claiming that “women helped this government come to power.”
There were many declarations, many promises
– added Ferenc, member of the State Tribunal from 2023. According to her, “anything other than the liberalization of abortion laws would give the new government the feeling that it has ‘cheated’ hundreds of thousands of people who took to the streets.”
It would be a shame and a lack of respect for a large number of women in Poland
– she added. The Guardian also quotes Marta Lempart, who emphasizes in an interview with the newspaper that it is women and young people who won these elections for Tusk. According to the Guardian, three bills have been introduced so far, all aimed at liberalizing abortion laws.
In November, the left announced that it would introduce two bills: one bill that would legalize abortion up to the twelfth week of pregnancy and another bill that would decriminalize assisted abortion.
– emphasizes the newspaper. As she noted, Tusk announced late last month that his party would also introduce its own bill allowing abortion up to the twelfth week of pregnancy. Both the Civic Coalition’s and the left’s projects include provisions allowing late-stage abortion, provided the mother’s life is in danger or developmental defects occur.
So far, there is no confirmed date for the first reading of these bills in Parliament.
– complains “The Guardian”. Worse. Third Road, a young member of the coalition led by Tusk, “is considering returning to the strict rules in force in Poland since 1993, the so-called compromise on abortion.
Despite widespread support among the Polish public for the liberalization of abortion, it is likely that two bills allowing abortion up to the twelfth week of pregnancy will not gain enough support in the Sejm to pass at first reading.
-we are reading. And instead, “only the most conservative bill will be passed, the Guardian laments, which aims to restore abortion’s previous legal status, and the rest will be rejected.”
According to Kamilka Ferenc, “this spells disaster for us as defenders of women’s rights.” Ferenc called on Tusk in the Guardian to “try harder” on the Third Way deal.
It’s politics, you have to negotiate
-she said.
Especially when it comes to women’s rights and abortion rights, because the situation is serious and there is a climate of fear around abortion in Poland
– she added.
Apparently, in addition to teachers and students, for whom laptops are not available, Donald Tusk has also managed to disappoint women from the Black Marches, who were closely involved in the PO campaign. And now they are complaining to foreign media.
—JJW, theguardian.com
Source: wPolityce