standing up with me for the rights of women in Poland!

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I am posting here for traffic here. If you agree with me that this new law is inhuman please sign petitions which I linked at the bottom of this post.

I am Polish, I wanted to tell you what is happening in seemingly democratic Poland right now. We have been organising events, protests and writing to every organisation we can think of.
Here's us on Saturday in London where we protested together with RepealThe8th
www.vice.com/en_uk/read/photos-from-the-london-protest-against-poland-restrictive-abortion-laws
One of my friends went to Geneva to present the case at UN yesterday.
More are travelling to Strasburg next week to present our case at the EU parliament.

Here are more of details we put together....
A new barbaric anti-choice law has just been passed to the next stage by the parliamentary body in Poland!
Polish parliament has voted it through to the commission stage by overwhelming majority. www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/23/polish-lawmakers-anti-abortion-bill?CMP=share_btn_fb
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2016/09/a-dangerous-backward-step-for-women-and-girls-in-poland/
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-37449903

The bill is labelled the ‘Stop Abortion’ but it in fact infringes on ALL of the FUNDAMENTAL REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS of women in Poland, not just abortion access, but also including access to contraception, sexual education and prenatal care!

It also changes the language of reproductive law in Poland to explicitly anti-choice language. According to this bill, life begins with the creation of the zygote (fertilized egg) - not even an embryo! - and so anyone who does anything, intentionally or unintentionally, to stop the zygote from being implanted in the uterus, might be liable to prosecution. Which means, in practice, that some forms contraception would effectively be outlawed, as they work by interrupting this process (like the morning after pill).

Conducting prenatal testing would effectively become impossible if this law comes into life due to the legal implications for doctors. Doctors would be liable to prosecution under the new law if they unintentionally cause a miscarriage, which would mean they would most likely decide not to do those at all!

It is notable that in the notes that accompany the bill, that are supposed to be justifying the bill, there are, next to citations from the Constitution of Poland and from the Constitution Commission, a couple of quotes from the Pope.

I can go on and on and give you more details. If you feel what the ultra Catholic government is trying to do is wrong please sign petitions:

act.wemove.eu/campaigns/abortion-UK
secure.avaaz.org/en/petition/Chairman_of_the_Petitions_Committee_European_Parliament_B1047_BRUSSELS_Stop_the_torture_of_Polish_women/?exhXskb

Signed and shared. Is something happening in London on Saturday? If it is, I will get there!

Try and stop me antimatter

I've signed and shared.

Signed. This is appalling.

Signed and shared. This is awful, keep fighting OP!

London Saturday:
www.facebook.com/events/789386014536497/?active_tab=posts

^Plan for Saturday demo:
Please wear layers: black with red on top! Red is to represent our solidarity with the Menstronauts demo. Mentronauts have invited us for their demo, where we're going to do a speech and a performance. Black represents our solidarity with women in Poland and #czarnyprotest #blackprotest
During our speech anyone wearing red and black can stand with us, and we will all take off the red layer while we talk about #czarnyprotest!
To end our performance we will do our rendition of the song Rewolucja! (With massive thanks to the TAK! choir from Gdansk!) We will post the text, and a clip of a previous performance of the song separately, so that people can print it out! If you'd like to sing with us, please show up 15 min before the official start time so that we can practice. We did our last performance after just 5 min of prep, so don't be shy and do join us - it's really easy!^

Signed and shared !

Someone must have reported this thread and it got moved to Petitions.
I was hoping that the chat will allow traffic and more people can read and sign.

Let's keep it bumped then. I will post in feminism to get more people aware of it.

Absolutely crazy. Signed and shared.

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Signed.

Signed. This is appalling and it makes me so sad that womens rights are a) Still under fire and 2) unsupported by men. WHERE ARE THE MEN? For fucks sake. We've always had to do this on our own.

I created another thread in Feminism chat yesterday

Signed and shared.

Signed

Thank you for bringing attention to this, antimatter

Oh dear, it seems some forced birthers got this moved.

There is a thread in chat about the change in law (doesn't have petition details though). The usual 'protect the rights of the unborn' posters are there.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/2740020-Poland-seeks-to-ban-abortion?pg=1&order=

Thank you bear.
I commented on it as well.

I havenot had much time to read Mumsnet lately due to my activism 😊

Signed.

Its absolutely madness going backwards for woman's rights.

Ugh, I see what you mean Bear. I'd lost that thread and come back and well...

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