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I Document How People Protest The New Law That Bans Abortion In Poland (40 Pics)
On Wednesday, thousands of women went out to march against a new law that bans abortion. The protests have been going on for 7 days, with no apparent end in sight.
Like many other Polish cities, Krakow's streets are full of angry people who want to make a change to this injustice. Here is my photoreportage covering it. The protesters have chosen the symbol of red lightning, used red and white-colored makeup and signs of red hoods, which represent the series Handmaid's Tale, in which the authoritarian state violates the rights of women.
Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the ruling Law and Justice party leader, has called on his supporters to "defend Poland" against protesters that want to "destroy the nation." Things have been escalating rapidly, and riot police were deployed a day ago. Many critics call the use of such martial methods undemocratic and unfair to its citizens, to say the least.
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"#Striking women
Hope your d**k steps on a LEGO"
"#Women's hell"
"Rights for people with uterus"
-I should be Paying attention to the protest, but I was looking at that Headless Pigeon @v@-
Those 8 stars are a symbol for "f**k PiS" ( jebać PiS) PiS is a ruling party
"wypie***j/wypie***ć" means "go the f**k out" and it's the most common slogan during those protests. it's rude, but, well, everybody knew "kurwa" one before... it may be your second polish word, congrats.
I'm almost sure I'm translating this incorrectly, since it has two idioms in it, but it's more or less something like: "The women are upset: 'Oh, the curse on the Duck!'". (It's a word-play: 'Kaczka' - Duck - is an allusion to "Kaczyński", last name of Polish politic). Also, the slogan is a quote from poem written by Jan Brzechwa.
I was appalled when I heard about this. The thing is no law will ever prevent abortions, it will just stop SAFE abortions. We women are humans not breeding machines and deserve to have the right over our own bodies. Men should not have a say in what we can do to our bodies and should not be able to have a vote on the matter. That is not their right.
EXACTLY. When you ban a safe medical procedure, you have women risking their lives and health with alternatives. It's 2020, those risks do not need to be taken.
Load More Replies...Finally! I was waiting for some kind of article about situation in Poland and I'm SO happy it was finally published! Let the world know what happened in our country!
Enuya I like in the UK and this is the first I have heard about it, so sad the BBC and other news outlets have not reported it. I stand with My Polish sisters.
Load More Replies...Some countries are making giant steps into the past...Wehn I was born, in Germany a woman couldn't have her own bank account without the approuval of her husband... her husband could force her to quit her job when he thought that her work had a negative impact on the housekeeping...
It's so awful, sad, and unfair! 😣 Unthinkable in the 21st century. Every person should have a right to choose what to do with their own body!
TheSneakyNinja, Firstly a foetus is not a child, it is developing to become a child but is not a child/person. So an abortion is not killing a child or a person. Secondly you cannot compare the laws of someone killing a living and breathing person to a foetus. A living person has friends, family, personality, identity, memories and awareness. A foetus has none of those. Thirdly saying a women should not have created a child is extremely ignorant, the woman doesn’t just CHOOSE to fall pregnant and it happens, 1 in 100 pregnancies is the result of contraception failure. So people do take precautions, it’s just ZERO contraception is 100% effective. Lastly just because you say the child should be treated with love and care doesn’t mean it works, just look at the cases of neglect, physical, emotional and sexual abuse, parents murdering their children etc. Women being forced to carry an unwanted pregnancy to full term can cause resentment and hate towards the child which can lead to abuse.
Load More Replies...In Malta, which is also an EU member state, there is a total ban on abortion. No exceptions. Sad to see Poland going the same way.
Wow, that's super scary. Polish women can (at least, not saying it's the way it should be) at least drive a couple of hours to get to one of the neighbour countries and get the procedure done there. In Malta, that's waaay trickier. :(
Load More Replies...Respect existence or expect resistance. I was horrified when I heard the announcement to stop legal abortion. They can't ever actually stop abortion, they will only make it more dangerous. It has nothing to do with men and thus should not be their choice, they have no say in this. Our bodies, our fight. Women are NOT baby generators, is it that hard of a concept for some people to grasp?
MY body, MY uterus, MY f****** choice! Why is this such a hard concept for people to grasp?
The reason why it is hard to grasp is that while it is your uterus and your body, there is a separate innocent human baby inside of your body. You should not be able to decide whether or not that beautiful baby lives or dies. That is why people have a hard time understanding when others end the lives of babies in the womb and then say "it's my body my choice".
Load More Replies...Let me just say, at the end of the day, it is the woman's choice. Sure, she can talk to the father about it, but he cannot influence her decision. If she is not ready to have a child, then she doesn't have to have the child. She can choose to put it up for adoption if she wants to give birth, or she can decide to abort it. Never force a choice onto anyone, because forcing a woman to have children can lead to the woman and/or the child dying during birth. Hope you have a good day.
Poland law bans abortions in the case of fetal defects. Still allows them for rape, incest or danger to mother's life.
please.. doctors will wait with decision that pregnancy thretens women's life to the very last moment and in many cases it will be too late to save the mother's life
Load More Replies...This is what you get, if you allow belivers of any god have right to be voted on, or vote. Its just a matter of time untill its f****d up like this.
No unborn child should ever be killed because of the mothers reckless actions. They didn't ask to be born and then only to be thrown away in a medical waste bin. By the looks of these women they are probably already used to having alot of abortions weekly now they are pissed because their government has finally put an end to it.
Seriously? the mothers reckless actions? How ignorant. It takes TWO to fall pregnant and the woman and the man can take precautions and STILL fall pregnant. The woman doesn’t always ask to be pregnant to only have yo suffer the rest of her life from following through with an unwanted pregnancy. I find it kind of ironic that most people on this post against abortions are male. Oh and FYI making abortions illegal will not end abortions, it will just make them more dangerous risking the womans life and severely damaging the foetus instead of successfully aborting, which can cause immense suffering once it is born.
Load More Replies...So sad that this site only does propaganda for the left...Not even a debate,not even allowed to have a different opinion or different world view.I am not talking about this one only,but other posts too...So this is the liberal and progressive mind set where everything is ok until something doesn't fit in your world views?Then you aren't that open minded anymore and turn into fascist
Actually it is sad that a decision was made by goverment without any attempts of discussion.. The situation was caused by lack of discussion and fact that people are affraid. With current decision most of the doctors would wait to the last moment to decide that pregnancy threats women's life. And in many cases it can be too late to save a women life. And doctors would affraid to decide because they didn't want to loose their jobs. This is the reason why protesters use so rude slogans. This is the only way to show the frustration and, unfortunatelly, this the only way to reach Polish politicians attention. There is a lot of catholic among protesters, older people- usually very conservative. But they protest because they think about their daughters and grandaughters, bexause they affraid that a pregnancy causing a health issue will put their family members in danger.
Load More Replies...Already the case in Malta, which is an EU member state. No abortion, no exceptions.
Load More Replies...Bill, fetuses are not the babies. They have no feelings, emotions... they don't even know they are aborted, since - you guess what - they cannot yet feel pain. Moreover, situation in Poland right now isn't even about legal abortion in general but about abortion of fetuses with heavy defects, like the ones without brains, with heavy genetical ilnesses etc. Also, even if the fetus with heavy defects will survive - given economical and political situation in Poland right now many parents will not be able to raise these children. They will give them to foster care or even worse, abandon them in streets, dumps or even kill them. So believe me, nobody here is 'against the unborn', we are fighting for basic human rights for women, because we don't want to be forced to carry through weeks a fetus which we know has no chance to survice. It's arther cruel to force woman to give borth to something which will be already dead and she will never even see by her own eyes, don't you think?
Load More Replies...It was about protesting laws banning abortion in Poland.
Load More Replies...I was appalled when I heard about this. The thing is no law will ever prevent abortions, it will just stop SAFE abortions. We women are humans not breeding machines and deserve to have the right over our own bodies. Men should not have a say in what we can do to our bodies and should not be able to have a vote on the matter. That is not their right.
EXACTLY. When you ban a safe medical procedure, you have women risking their lives and health with alternatives. It's 2020, those risks do not need to be taken.
Load More Replies...Finally! I was waiting for some kind of article about situation in Poland and I'm SO happy it was finally published! Let the world know what happened in our country!
Enuya I like in the UK and this is the first I have heard about it, so sad the BBC and other news outlets have not reported it. I stand with My Polish sisters.
Load More Replies...Some countries are making giant steps into the past...Wehn I was born, in Germany a woman couldn't have her own bank account without the approuval of her husband... her husband could force her to quit her job when he thought that her work had a negative impact on the housekeeping...
It's so awful, sad, and unfair! 😣 Unthinkable in the 21st century. Every person should have a right to choose what to do with their own body!
TheSneakyNinja, Firstly a foetus is not a child, it is developing to become a child but is not a child/person. So an abortion is not killing a child or a person. Secondly you cannot compare the laws of someone killing a living and breathing person to a foetus. A living person has friends, family, personality, identity, memories and awareness. A foetus has none of those. Thirdly saying a women should not have created a child is extremely ignorant, the woman doesn’t just CHOOSE to fall pregnant and it happens, 1 in 100 pregnancies is the result of contraception failure. So people do take precautions, it’s just ZERO contraception is 100% effective. Lastly just because you say the child should be treated with love and care doesn’t mean it works, just look at the cases of neglect, physical, emotional and sexual abuse, parents murdering their children etc. Women being forced to carry an unwanted pregnancy to full term can cause resentment and hate towards the child which can lead to abuse.
Load More Replies...In Malta, which is also an EU member state, there is a total ban on abortion. No exceptions. Sad to see Poland going the same way.
Wow, that's super scary. Polish women can (at least, not saying it's the way it should be) at least drive a couple of hours to get to one of the neighbour countries and get the procedure done there. In Malta, that's waaay trickier. :(
Load More Replies...Respect existence or expect resistance. I was horrified when I heard the announcement to stop legal abortion. They can't ever actually stop abortion, they will only make it more dangerous. It has nothing to do with men and thus should not be their choice, they have no say in this. Our bodies, our fight. Women are NOT baby generators, is it that hard of a concept for some people to grasp?
MY body, MY uterus, MY f****** choice! Why is this such a hard concept for people to grasp?
The reason why it is hard to grasp is that while it is your uterus and your body, there is a separate innocent human baby inside of your body. You should not be able to decide whether or not that beautiful baby lives or dies. That is why people have a hard time understanding when others end the lives of babies in the womb and then say "it's my body my choice".
Load More Replies...Let me just say, at the end of the day, it is the woman's choice. Sure, she can talk to the father about it, but he cannot influence her decision. If she is not ready to have a child, then she doesn't have to have the child. She can choose to put it up for adoption if she wants to give birth, or she can decide to abort it. Never force a choice onto anyone, because forcing a woman to have children can lead to the woman and/or the child dying during birth. Hope you have a good day.
Poland law bans abortions in the case of fetal defects. Still allows them for rape, incest or danger to mother's life.
please.. doctors will wait with decision that pregnancy thretens women's life to the very last moment and in many cases it will be too late to save the mother's life
Load More Replies...This is what you get, if you allow belivers of any god have right to be voted on, or vote. Its just a matter of time untill its f****d up like this.
No unborn child should ever be killed because of the mothers reckless actions. They didn't ask to be born and then only to be thrown away in a medical waste bin. By the looks of these women they are probably already used to having alot of abortions weekly now they are pissed because their government has finally put an end to it.
Seriously? the mothers reckless actions? How ignorant. It takes TWO to fall pregnant and the woman and the man can take precautions and STILL fall pregnant. The woman doesn’t always ask to be pregnant to only have yo suffer the rest of her life from following through with an unwanted pregnancy. I find it kind of ironic that most people on this post against abortions are male. Oh and FYI making abortions illegal will not end abortions, it will just make them more dangerous risking the womans life and severely damaging the foetus instead of successfully aborting, which can cause immense suffering once it is born.
Load More Replies...So sad that this site only does propaganda for the left...Not even a debate,not even allowed to have a different opinion or different world view.I am not talking about this one only,but other posts too...So this is the liberal and progressive mind set where everything is ok until something doesn't fit in your world views?Then you aren't that open minded anymore and turn into fascist
Actually it is sad that a decision was made by goverment without any attempts of discussion.. The situation was caused by lack of discussion and fact that people are affraid. With current decision most of the doctors would wait to the last moment to decide that pregnancy threats women's life. And in many cases it can be too late to save a women life. And doctors would affraid to decide because they didn't want to loose their jobs. This is the reason why protesters use so rude slogans. This is the only way to show the frustration and, unfortunatelly, this the only way to reach Polish politicians attention. There is a lot of catholic among protesters, older people- usually very conservative. But they protest because they think about their daughters and grandaughters, bexause they affraid that a pregnancy causing a health issue will put their family members in danger.
Load More Replies...Already the case in Malta, which is an EU member state. No abortion, no exceptions.
Load More Replies...Bill, fetuses are not the babies. They have no feelings, emotions... they don't even know they are aborted, since - you guess what - they cannot yet feel pain. Moreover, situation in Poland right now isn't even about legal abortion in general but about abortion of fetuses with heavy defects, like the ones without brains, with heavy genetical ilnesses etc. Also, even if the fetus with heavy defects will survive - given economical and political situation in Poland right now many parents will not be able to raise these children. They will give them to foster care or even worse, abandon them in streets, dumps or even kill them. So believe me, nobody here is 'against the unborn', we are fighting for basic human rights for women, because we don't want to be forced to carry through weeks a fetus which we know has no chance to survice. It's arther cruel to force woman to give borth to something which will be already dead and she will never even see by her own eyes, don't you think?
Load More Replies...It was about protesting laws banning abortion in Poland.
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