After death
Poland: «Minute of Screaming» – demo against abortion law
Poles protest against the restrictive abortion law in Warsaw Photo: Czarek Sokolowski / AP / dpa
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Ten thousand Poles protested against the abortion law with a “minute of screaming” in downtown Warsaw. The occasion is the death of a pregnant woman.
Tens of thousands of people have demonstrated against the country’s restrictive abortion laws in Warsaw and several other Polish cities. The news channel TVN24 reported.
With a “minute of screaming” (instead of a minute’s silence) as the highlight of the Warsaw rally, the protesters remembered the death of a pregnant woman in October in the hospital in the southern Polish city of Pszczyna. The death of the 30-year-old is being investigated by the public prosecutor’s office.
The lawyer Jolanta Budzowska informed about the case in digital media last week and blamed Poland’s strict abortion ban for the young woman’s death. According to the lawyer, the hospital doctors did not dare to save the woman’s life by aborting the pregnancy. In the past few days there have been repeated protests against the abortion laws.
A year ago, the Polish Constitutional Court repealed almost all of the exceptions to the strict abortion law. Since then, abortion has been banned in Poland even if the fetus is seriously damaged.