On Tuesday, 20 October 2026, a situation occurred in the plenary area of the Sejm which exposes the deep hypocrisy of part of the political class. During the debate on projects to reconstruct eugenic abortion, i.e. selective killing of children conceived with suspected serious defects or disabilities, a journey to the gallery of young people from peculiar school in Zduńska Wola was present. Young people with intellectual disabilities have witnessed Members arguing that the lives of specified children do not deserve protection.
The young people with disabilities were especially welcomed by Deputy Marshal Piotr Zgorzelski. His PSL group played a key function in bringing about votes that reconstruct the anticipation of killing children with disabilities. It is the same formation that frequently refers to conventional values and social sensitivity in electoral campaigns.
Members continued their deliberations without any reaction to the presence of guests from the gallery. In the debate, there were words about "feds with damage" and arguments that children with specified defects are "failure" for families, mothers and fathers "suffering for years", so they should be allowed to be killed.
The Sejm passed 2 laws
The Sejm passed an amendment to the Criminal Code. 217 Members voted against 213, 3 abstained. The amendment implies, among another things, that the repeal of Article 152 par. 1 of the Law on household Planning is punishable by imprisonment until the age of 3; the repeal of Article 152 par. 2 provides that the same punishment is imposed on a individual who gives pregnant women the assistance of abortion in violation of the law (help) or urges them to do so; the addition of Article 152 par. 4 in Article 152 par. 4 that he does not commit a criminal offence to a peculiar doctor, caregiver or midwife if the abortion is simply a consequence of the medical procedure essential to remedy the danger of threatening the wellness or life of a pregnant female or erstwhile prenatal examinations or another medical conditions indicate a advanced likelihood of serious and irreversible birth defects or an incurable illness threatening his life.
This means, in practice, beginning the door to abortion on request and denying the protection of the weakest children. The message of “the danger of threatening the wellness or life of a woman” is extended in a way contrary to intellectual and emotional health, becoming an excuse to kill an innocent kid due to depression or temporary illness of the mother.
The Sejm besides adopted a bill that one more time opens the way to killing unborn children only on the basis of suspicion of a serious defect of the kid – a condition which the Constitutional Court had already considered to be clearly contrary to the Constitution and the right to life.
233 Members voted against, 203 voted against and 1 abstained.
The Parliamentary Initiative of the 3rd Way, which was submitted in February 2024, aims straight at waiving the Constitutional Court ruling of 22 October 2020. It restores the anticipation of killing an innocent kid on the basis of the very suspicion of a serious developmental defect – solutions which the CCC explicitly regarded as unconstitutional and violating the fundamental right to life of the weakest and defenseless human beings.
Eugenic abortion is not a "right of choice" but a form of discrimination against the weakest. A kid with Down syndrome, with a genetic flaw or another disability, is the same man as any other. The law that allows them to be killed before birth tells the disabled that their presence is simply a problem, not a gift. The situation of Tuesday, erstwhile children with disabilities listened to the debate about the legalization of killing specified as them, is simply a symbolic confirmation of this truth.
Politicians, who welcome young people from peculiar school 1 day and then vote for the right to destruct children with akin problems, show how far they have gone from simple solidarity with the weakest.
Sign the petition in defence of life to the president of the Republic!
Now the projects will go to the legislature and yet to the President. This is the last chance to halt a process that, alternatively of supporting families and children with disabilities, offers them death as a “solution”.
The president has signaled opposition to the liberalisation of abortion law, which is why it is so crucial to express its voice in the defence of the life of unborn children right now.
We encourage you to sign a petition to the president of Poland to veto abortion laws. This is an crucial way to appeal to the head of the state to defend the lives of all man, including the smallest and most vulnerable.
We cannot turn our eyes distant from those who cannot claim their own life. Let us be their voice, stand in their defence and show that the destiny of unborn children is not indifferent to us. all life has value and deserves protection!
Sign the petition to the president of the Republic!
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