Poland’s PiS Party Endorses Draconian Anti-Abortion Law

Posted by DanielS on Saturday, 09 April 2016 09:21.

Pardon the source, but this article not only well explains the draconian anti-abortion law that Poland’s PiS party is set to pass, but also prompts the question as to what other insane laws the new Polish government will institute.

An additional danger for White Nationalists is to be anticipated by Jewish commandeering of the inevitable popular backlash.

Daily Beast, “Poland’s Coat Hanger Rebellion Against a New Anti-Abortion Law” 6 April 2016:

Poland’s Catholic Church and conservative government may have figured a draconian new “pro-life” law would have general acceptance. They were wrong.

When Catholic priests issued decrees during morning mass last Sunday calling for the country to institute a complete ban on abortions, Poland erupted in protests. The initiative was not unexpected, but the surge of opposition caught many by surprise as men and women took to the streets waving wire coat hangers, symbols of the deadly “back room” abortions that take place when all legal means to terminate a pregnancy are exhausted.

The purpose of the priests’ coordinated speeches was to launch a petition and gather churchgoers’ signatures that could then be used to begin a legislative campaign in the country’s parliament, the Sejm. A “pro-life” organization called Fundacja Pro quickly gathered the required 1,000 signatures. But when the group made its intentions known during the course of the previous week, many Poles started organizing opposition on Facebook.

In just two days, they drew together over 65,000 concerned activists and laid the groundwork for Sunday’s protests, but stopping the momentum of the draconian legislation is going to be a long, tough fight.

Current law in Poland allows abortions only in three drastic situations: when the pregnancy is a result of rape or incest; when the life of the pregnant woman is in danger; or when the fetus is severely damaged. This is already one of the most restrictive abortion laws in all of Europe, forcing many women to seek out underground abortions or travel outside of Poland to countries like Slovakia. But in the eyes of Poland’s Catholic Church, this policy is too lackadaisical.

The draft of the new legislation was written by an organization called Ordo Iuris (Rule of Law), whose stated aim is to “promote a legal culture based on respect for human dignity and rights.” The draft was promptly endorsed by the Polish Episcopal Conference, which acts as the central organ of the Catholic Church in Poland. The conference’s widely disseminated notice on the new law explained that it supports it because the 5th Commandment specifically states “Thou shalt not kill,” and thus life must be protected from beginning—from the moment the sperm fertilizes the egg—to its natural end.

The wording of the law itself is simple but the implications are sweeping: “Every human being has the inherent right to life from the moment of conception,” reads its article I. “The life and health of the child from conception remain under protection of the law.”

On April 4, the Polish television network TVN reported that the law would lead to prison terms of up to three years for causing the death of a child once conceived. The same would apply to anyone who assists with or encourages the termination.

Critics looking at the possible legal ramifications were appalled. Pawel Kalisz of the Polish website Natemat wrote that the wording of the law could include as accomplices the woman or girl’s doctor; the friend driving her to the clinic; the dad who wrote her the sick note for the day off from school; the friend who brought her medication from abroad. Everyone.

Others noted that, in theory at least, rape survivors and children will be forced to give birth; women who might die due to their pregnancy will have no way to terminate it legally; a miscarriage might be punished with a sentence, as fetal murder will enter the criminal code;

Also, the state will have the right to bypass a person’s constitutional rights in order to protect unborn children; since prenatal testing is connected to a very small risk of miscarriage, it will be banned and doctors performing it might face criminal charges; and the morning-after pill will be categorized as an early abortion tool and thus completely banned (as will IUDs).

As one protester pointed out as well, women who discovered early on that their fetus had zero chance of surviving the pregnancy would be forced to live with the misery of carrying the baby for months and months until the inevitable conclusion.

The punishment would escalate to up to eight years of jail time for abortions undertaken without the consent of the woman. Furthermore, prison sentences of up to 10 years would be on the table for abortions undertaken while the fetus has the capacity for life outside the womb.

There are some loopholes, but they are narrow and unreliable. The draft law would not make it a crime for a doctor to end the life of a conceived child during the course of a procedure essential to saving the life of the mother. Furthermore, in exceptional cases the court would be able to reduce the jail sentence of a mother who had deliberately caused the death of a conceived child, or waive it altogether.

Although Polish values generally are Catholic and conservative, many Poles marched out of mass on Sunday in disgust when priests read the decree. A video of a woman openly admonishing her pastor went viral across the country. In it, the priest interrupts the woman’s tirade to ask if she has finished with her “political statement.” The irony of this remark was not lost on social media users, with one woman commenting, “Well, yes, because in church, political statements can only be made from the priest’s pulpit.”

The country’s right-wing media, meanwhile, called these protests a provocation against the state.

Although, formally, nothing has yet been codified, the wheels of change have been put into motion says Polish journalist Michał Szułdrzyński. “Now that Fundacja Pro have done their initial signature gathering, they will take it to the Sejm, which will verify the 1,000 signatures and then give the group three months to collect another 100,000 signatures. If successful, this next step would force the Sejm into taking a serious look.”

That’s not nearly as difficult as it sounds.

In 2011, a civic initiative to ban abortion gathered nearly 500,000 signatures and was introduced into the Sejm. At that time however, the lower house was run by the more left-leaning Civic Platform, which rejected the idea. When it was put to a vote, the more liberal Civic Platform party held 208 seats while Law and Justice (known by its Polish acronym PiS) controlled 157. The result of the vote was 178 for and 206 against.

Now, however, the PiS controls 235 seats against the Civic Platform party’s 157, and has embarked on a systematic campaign to stifle and marginalize opposition. PiS could pass the bill on its own, and it’s also got a parliamentary ally, with the third biggest party Kukiz’15, run by musician turned right-wing populist Pawel Kukiz. The Kukiz party holds 40 seats in Sejm, and its leader has also been an outspoken opponent of abortion in the past. With these numbers, the bill will almost assuredly pass.

All of this poses a very real and terrifying prospect for women across the country who fear that the coat hangers they’ve been holding as symbols of resistance might soon become their only recourse against unwanted and unsafe births.

When asked why he believes this is happening again, Szułdrzyński says it’s quite simple. “In the opinion of the Catholic Church abortion is wrong in every circumstance and they feel that as a Catholic country, Poland should pass a law to reflect the church’s position.”

Earlier in the week, Polish Prime Minister Beata Szydlo was asked on public radio what she thought about this issue, and she said that as a Catholic she supports the proposal. Her remarks sparked outrage and she has now backtracked a bit to say that she was merely giving her opinion as a private person and not making a statement as prime minister.

Her flip-flop sparked ridicule online, with many women questioning why the PM was so personally interested in the wombs of Polish women. Several went on Szydlo’s Facebook page. One, Malina Prześluga-Delimata, decided to notify her, sarcastically, that she wasn’t pregnant:  “Madam Beato, I write to inform you that my cycle runs fine. I received my period on time (the cycle lasts 31 days).” She went on to thank the PM for being so interested in her and in her reproductive potential. “It is fantastic to know that for the moment I will be able to shift responsibility for my breeding to someone else. I will keep you up to date.”

The greatest display of anger, however, was on Poland’s streets, in what might be called the coat hanger rebellion.

Szułdrzyński believes that the ruling PiS party was caught off guard by the backlash. “This has driven great controversy because if you look at recent polls, although most people are against abortion, the overwhelming majority supports the three exceptions as they stand now,” he said.

Here is the organization behind this. Aren’t Abrahamic religions so nice? If some Arab or African converts to Catholicism, he can rape your daughter, be forgiven in confessional, while she is forced to bear the beast soon to be baptized into your biological people’s replacement.



Comments:


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Posted by Ordo authored the anti- abortion law on Sat, 09 Apr 2016 13:59 | #

Ordo is the author of this anti-abortion law. There’s a draft on their site.


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Posted by Say "No" to Abrahamic jurisdiction on Sat, 09 Apr 2016 14:10 | #

             


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Posted by Polish gov. going for total ban on abortion? on Fri, 23 Sep 2016 20:31 | #

       

Visigrad Post, Is Poland going towards a total ban on abortion? 23 September 2016:

Poland – The Polish parliament was to consider Thursday, September 22 at first reading two citizen initiatives on abortion which are considered projects of law. The second initiative, launched by feminist circles in response to the first, would legalize abortion on demand up to the 12th week of pregnancy. For Poland, since a law passed in 1993, called “compromise on abortion”, abortions are prohibited except in three cases: when the pregnancy endangers the life or physical health of the pregnant woman (as the fetus would not survive naturally outside its mother’s body), if prenatal tests or other medical symptoms show that there is a high probability of serious and incurable deficiency of the fetus or incurable illness making her life safe (as the fetus would not survive naturally out of its mother’s body), and there is a strong presumption that the pregnancy is the result of an act prohibited by law (rape, incest … – up to the 12th week of pregnancy). Despite these restrictions, legal abortions are rising. There is every year a few rare cases of abortion due to rape or incest (eg 3 out of 744 abortions in 2013). Unsafe abortions are in 90% of cases a genetic deficiency of the child conceived (mainly trisomy 21).


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Posted by Polish women strike against abortion ban on Mon, 03 Oct 2016 13:46 | #

BBC, “Black Monday: Polish women strike against abortion ban”, 3 Oct 2016:

Women in Poland have gone on strike in protest against proposals for a total ban on abortions.


They marched through the streets wearing black as a sign of mourning for their reproductive rights.

Women who oppose the ban are staying away from work and school and refusing to do domestic chores, in a protest inspired by a women’s strike in Iceland in 1975.

Anti-abortion protests are being held around the country too.
IVF curb

Women took to the streets of the capital city, Warsaw, in a pro-choice march on what they are calling “Black Monday”.

It is unclear how many women are taking part in the action and how widespread it will be beyond big cities.

Will Poland impose a total ban on abortion?

If the law - which has cleared one parliamentary hurdle so far - goes through it will make Poland’s abortion laws as restrictive as those in two other countries in Europe: Malta and the Vatican.

Women found to have had abortions would be punished with a five-year prison term. Doctors found to have assisted in an abortion would also be liable for jail time.

Abortion is already mostly banned in Poland.

The current exceptions are:

  where the woman’s life is in danger
  where there is a risk of serious and irreversible damage to the foetus
  where the pregnancy is as a result of rape or incest - this must be confirmed by a prosecutor

Critics say the tightening of the law could mean women who have a miscarriage are also investigated, on suspicion of having had the pregnancy terminated deliberately. At early stages of pregnancy, miscarriages and abortions have indistinguishable symptoms.

One protester said: “We are saying ‘enough is enough’ over what is happening, to what the government, the Church and the so-called pro-life organisations are planning for women.

“They want to introduce an anti-abortion law which will mean in many cases, women will be sentenced to death. It will take away the sense of security they have, the treatment options available when pregnancy puts their lives or health in danger.”

One gynaecologist warned that the law as it is worded now could effectively lead to doctors being unwilling to do invasive prenatal tests and lifesaving operations.
Image copyright EPA

Prof Romuald Debski, who works at a hospital in Warsaw, told Polish media: “Whoever causes the death of the unborn child is punishable by imprisonment up to three years. If I have a patient with pre-eclampsia, who is 32 weeks pregnant, I will have to let her and her child die.

“I have to, because if I perform a caesarean section and the child dies, I may go to prison for three years, because the child was premature.”

Pre-eclampsia is a potentially fatal condition that can develop in the second half of pregnancy and can only be cured by delivering the baby.

A separate bill seeks to curb in-vitro fertilisation (IVF), allowing only one embryo to be fertilised at any one time, and banning the practice of freezing embryos.

The city hall in Czestochowa in southern Poland allowed female staff to take the day off on Monday, while several businesses have closed for the protests.

But the Catholic Church is among those who support the total ban. The Polish Bishops’ Conference asked Catholics to pray for “the conscience and the light of the Holy Spirit on all Poles who protect human life from conception to natural death”.


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Posted by Polish Parliament knocks down abortion ban on Tue, 11 Oct 2016 19:53 | #

The Polish Parliament rejected the near-total ban on abortion

Poland – The Polish Parliament rejected this Thursday, October 6, the draft law from citizens’ initiative aimed at banning abortion unless it is the result of medical care aiming to save the pregnant woman’s life. This project had led several demonstrations, on Monday, October 3, the “Black Monday” and a call to strike of women.


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Posted by Thrown out of Dyke March for being Jewish on Wed, 28 Jun 2017 12:38 | #

Diversity Mach Frei, “I was thrown out of Dyke March for being Jewish,” 28 June 2017:

Over and over again (link) Jews create, or foster the emergence of, movements they think will aid in their ethnic agenda, only to find they run catastrophically out of control and blow back on their creators.

“I wanted to be in public as a gay Jew of Persian and German heritage. Nothing more, nothing less. So I made a shirt that said ‘Proud Jewish Dyke’ and hoisted a big Jewish Pride flag — a rainbow flag with a Star of David in the center, the centuries-old symbol of the Jewish people,” she wrote. “During the picnic in the park, organizers in their official t-shirts began whispering and pointing at me and soon, a delegation came over, announcing they’d been sent by the organizers. They told me my choices were to roll up my Jewish Pride flag or leave. The Star of David makes it look too much like the Israeli flag, they said, and it triggers people and makes them feel unsafe. This was their complaint.”

She tried to explain that the star is the “ubiquitous symbol of Judaism,” and that she simply wanted “to be Jewish in public.” Then, she “tried using their language,” explaining “this is my intersection. I’m supposed to be able to celebrate it here.”  It didn’t work.

Ms. Shoshany Anderson left sobbing. “I was thrown out of Dyke March for being Jewish,” she said.

Source


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Posted by Bo Kocham Ludzi on Thu, 06 Sep 2018 15:01 | #


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Posted by Alabama on Sat, 18 May 2019 15:30 | #

Daniel Sienkiewicz commented on Luke Ford’s Right-Wing Hangout.

2 days ago (edited)

Prohibit abortion in Alabama (and Georgia next?).  Very good idea to help these states replete with blacks to have more of them…and more Mulatto babies and more black on White rape babies. Let me tell you right wing F-heads something: if I were to have a daughter and she were impregnated by rape, try saying that she could not have an abortion… try it.


If someone were to rape my daughter and then someone were to try to prevent me from getting that thing aborted, then there is one moral choice regarding that person trying to obstruct the abortion - to get them out of the way.


I don’t have a problem not raping anyone, nor do most White men, but the black boys that you brought into the world through your anti abortion crusade will behave differently, particularly as they were unwanted by their fathers and mothers and learn to disrespect women on top of their already hyper assertive nature, with its aggression and low impulse control.

Pro-choice: if you find abortion abhorrent (that’s understandable), don’t have one.


I can see trying to discourage White women from having late term abortions of healthy babies… but…


You can’‘t value life so much as to make it unlivable (for the same reason I believe in the death penalty). The black population is already increasing exponentially, anti-abortion is only going to increase it further while inhibiting and imposing on the resource that might foster White children..



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