Polish abortion government violates women's rights," stated the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination of Women (CEDAW) on Monday. The message is the consequence of an investigation into Polish law on abortion which the Committee started in 2021.
As part of changes in abortion law from 2021 in Poland, killing an unborn kid is formally legal in cases where pregnancy is the consequence of a prohibited act (mainly sexual aggression or incest) or erstwhile it straight threatens the life or wellness of a mother.
In its conclusions of the UN investigation, it stated that Polish women are facing "serious human rights violations due to the tightening of abortion law, and that many of them are forced to carry out pregnancy against their will, hotel to home, dangerous methods of abortion or travel abroad" to places where abortion is legal," CEDAW wrote in a communication.
The current law in the assessment of the global organization "is aimed at women and can be tantamount to torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment," said Vice-President Genoveva Tisheva. In 2022, this eugenics supporter visited Poland with erstwhile CEDAW associate Lia Nadaria. As reported in the Communication, the government then worked with the Committee during the stay of UN officials.
CEDAW convinces in the study of the investigation that Polish law is so restrictive that for fear of legal work any doctors do not undertake abortion even in situations where regulations let it, which could endanger the life of a woman.
In addition, the investigation shows that many doctors refuse to execute a ‘continuation procedure’ citing moral or spiritual considerations. In addition, access to alleged abortion is "seriously hampered", even erstwhile pregnancy is the consequence of a crime, due to the "complex and unfriendly (female) bureaucratic process". The situation is further exacerbated by, of course not from the point of view of the killed children, "anti-abortion groups, threats and reports aimed at helping women who want to have an abortion," CEDAW stressed.
“All of this creates a complex, dangerous and dangerous environment in which access to a safe [sic! – PCh24.pl] abortion is stigmatized and virtually impossible”, Tisheva said.
The AFP Agency, which discussed the CEDAW study on Monday, did not neglect to add that "Polish abortion law is 1 of the most restrictive in Europe and provides for penalties besides for those helping pregnant women to gain access to abortion – it threatens them to spend up to 3 years in prison." Of course, the word “also” is another abuse in this case, as the mother-childicide is punishable by local law.
The last effort to extend the legal freedom to kill children conceived occurred on 12 July, erstwhile Parliament rejected the draft amendment of the Criminal Code, which included decriminalization of abortion aid and alleged abortion with the consent of the pregnant female until 12 weeks of pregnancy. It was 215 against 218 parliamentarians, including PiS, Confederacy and a large condition of PSL.
Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Friday during the Campus Polish Future in Olsztyn Kortów that in the parliament of the current word there would be a majority for "legal abortion in the full sense of the word". He announced that he would not propose a referendum on this substance against opposition from feminist groups, but besides that "there would be a completely different practice in the prosecution and in Polish hospitals".
Source: PAP
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