On 30 October 2020, about 100,000 people took to the streets of Warsaw in a protest against the Polish authorities over the ruling on abortion rights. [ 56 ] Since the ruling several women died from a septic shock, after the doctors refused to perform …

1 day ago · Performing your own abortion or possession of abortion pills for a self-managed abortion is not a crime under Polish law, but any person or doctor who helps pregnant people with an abortion outside the two permitted grounds in the law may face up to three years in prison. ... At a hearing today at the Court of Appeal in Warsaw, the judge said ...

12 hours ago · WARSAW, Poland — An appeals court in Poland said Thursday that it would rule next month in the case of a women’s rights activist convicted in 2023 of providing another woman with abortion pills.

Mar 14, 2023 · The court in Warsaw found Ms. Wydrzynska guilty of aiding abortion by sending misoprostol pills, an abortion medication, and sentenced her to 30 hours of community service a month for eight...

Oct 31, 2020 · Huge crowds turned out to protest in the Polish capital, Warsaw, on Friday against a court decision to ban nearly all abortions, making it one of the largest demonstrations seen in the country in...

Apr 11, 2024 · Poland has some of the tightest abortion laws in the EU and anti-abortion activists gathered in Warsaw as the debate took place. Outside parliament, anti-abortion protesters displayed a banner...

May 24, 2024 · On April 14, 2024, tens of thousands of people joined a National March for Life through Warsaw. Organizers estimated that at least 50,000 people participated, claiming that it was the...

Jun 14, 2023 · Abortion rights supporters marched through several cities in Poland on Wednesday after the death of a pregnant woman whose family believe she could have survived if she had been offered a...

Aug 26, 2024 · The rights of women in Poland are currently being violated due to restrictive abortion laws that have contributed to “several preventable deaths,” according to independent rights experts on...

Oct 22, 2022 · It’s been two years since hundreds of thousands of people – mostly women – joined protests in Poland against a near-total ban on legal abortion. Police used violence to disperse rallies and...