Women’s rights in Poland: "This would be tantamount to a de facto ban on abortion".

International Viewpoint Online magazine, IV544 - May 2020
Saturday 16 May 2020

A conversation with Hanna Grzeskiewicz by Carmela Negrete. This interview first appeared in German in junge Welt.

CN: The feminist collective "Dziewuchy Berlin" has warned of the precarious situation Polish women find themselves in, as the corona crisis has limited abortion access even more. What is the connection between the pandemic and abortion access?

HG: Around a thousand legal abortions take place in Poland every year. However, this option is only possible for a very limited number of cases, which is why it was common for many women to go abroad toward this end, for example, to Great Britain or Germany – while thousands of dangerous abortions that take place every year in criminalized, underground circumstances. However, now that the borders have been closed in the wake of the corona crisis, affected women have little chance to make decisions regarding their lives or bodies.

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