Polish hospitals are most likely inactive legally performing abortions for eugenic reasons (suspect of illness in the child), despite the ban on eugenic abortion resulting from the Constitutional Court ruling of 2021. They're utilized to this loophole in the law.
Crying kid and ankle/illustrator/photo. Ben_Kerckx/Hilary Clark/Pixabay (collapse)The Pro-Right of Life Foundation already at the time of the Constitutional Tribunal's declaration in 2021 of the non-compliance of the alleged eugenic premise for abortion with the Constitution of the Polish Republic warned that Polish law is inactive flawed and contains gaps which will be utilized to proceed legally abortion on children suspected of illness. Now the Foundation draws attention to the interview that Gizela Jagielska, Deputy manager of Oleśnica Hospital, late gave to the portal “Politics”.
As Jagielska said, erstwhile a female comes to the infirmary with a fishy Down syndrome in her child, “we are incapable to tell how the kid with trisomy [Down syndrome] will develop, which leaves the female in large uncertainty and not all of them are ready to lift this weight.”
Therefore, specified a female may receive a certificate from a psychiatrist that a fishy of Down syndrome in a kid endangers her intellectual health. You can have an abortion on the basis of this certificate in the hospital. Tissue abortion is formally performed due to a "risk of the intellectual wellness of the mother", but in practice it is eugenic abortion, i.e. due to a suspected illness in the child.
– If a female cannot bear the uncertainty about whether her kid will be sick or healthy, it is better to have an abortion and to be certain that the kid will be dead – this is the solution to the problem of fishy illness in the kid they offer Polish abortionists – says Mariusz Dzierżawski, associate of the board of the Pro-Right to Life Foundation.
– Since the Constitutional Court's ruling declaring eugenic abortion incompatible with the Constitution of the Polish Republic, Poland has been developing the practice of giving abortions to women wishing to certify that pregnancy is allegedly threatening their intellectual health. From many media statements, we can conclude that connected to the abortion lobby psychiatrists issue specified certificates to any willing female who comes forward. In practice, infirmary abortion is presently legal in Poland on request, at all phase of pregnancy. All you gotta do is get a certificate from a appropriate psychiatrist. specified contacts are advertised by abortion organisations on the Internet, explains Mariusz Dzierżawski.
The Pro-Right to Life Foundation reached statistic on the number of abortions carried out late in the infirmary in Oleśnica. In 2021 alone, 9 abortions were carried out there due to the danger of the mother's intellectual health, and from January to April 2022 already 14 specified abortions. Earlier, in 2016-2020, an average of 24 abortions per year were performed in Oleśnica, in the vast majority of eugenics, but abortions were never performed due to a intellectual wellness hazard.
– We do not yet have data for the second half of the year 2022, but if the increasing number of pregnancies allegedly threatening women's intellectual wellness persists, then in Oleśnica there may be a evidence of the number of abortions, despite the fact that eugenic abortion has not been legal for more than a year," says Mariusz Dzierżawski.
The Foundation besides points out that Deputy manager Jagielska publically acknowledged in the media that it is possible that the most legal abortions in Poland are presently taking place in her facility.
– After the Court issued the ruling in many Polish pro-life environments, euphoria prevailed. Many people said that we now have a very good law, 1 of the best in the world, protecting the lives of children, and so further action to change abortion law in Poland is unnecessary. Meanwhile, our law is hollow and contains serious gaps that effectively exploit abortionists. Currently, abortion is de facto legal in Poland on request, just go through the appropriate administrative procedure – says Mariusz Dzierżawski.
– At the same time, abortion crime is developing rapidly in Poland. Over the last year, respective tens of thousands of abortions have been performed in Poland utilizing illegal abortion pills, which sale organized crime groups. Reliable estimates say around 30,000 abortions per year. Currently, Polish law does not let for an effective fight against this phenomenon, which is consistently utilized by abortion criminals to advertise illegal abortion pills, mainly among young girls and women in hard circumstances," adds Dzierżawski.
According to the Pro-Right to Life Foundation, national social campaigns are essential and urgent, which should influence the change of law in Poland and the formation of Poles' awareness of abortion.
