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Apparent protection of conceived life and clash with conscience clause

MedExpress Team

Małgorzata Solecka

Published June 26, 2023 08:27

What is the dimension of the ruling party's elevation of the protection of conceived life to the banner? New light is shed on an old problem by a weekend interview that Law and Justice Chairman Jaroslaw Kaczynski gave to Krzysztof Ziemc. One of the topics was the announced referendum on the legalization of abortion. What did the former and current deputy prime minister, leader of the ruling majority, say?
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- It's worth doing referendums about issues that are practical. As for the issue you mentioned, I don't want to exaggerate, but almost on every corner in Warsaw and in many different places this can be dealt with, no one is fighting it. So doing a referendum on such matters would make sense if, for example, we demanded that this be definitely stopped," Jaroslaw Kaczynski said.

Eight years ago, the whole of Poland was nodding its heads over the diagnosis of the state of the state, delivered over octopuses by Bartlomiej Sienkiewicz, recorded by waiters and made available to the public. - Ch.j, ass and stones - how topical it is, also in the context of the discourse on the limits of the conscience clause and the obligations of public institutions towards the most vulnerable, because they remain in a state of danger to life and health, women.

Jaroslaw Kaczynski may be exaggerating a bit when he says that "it" (i.e., abortion) can be arranged on every corner in Warsaw and many other places, but in fact not much. Polish women terminate their pregnancies "privately," and as long as they don't report to a public facility with their problem, there is no problem. Except maybe when complications arise, but that's another thread altogether. In general, as estimated by pro-choice organizations, at least 100=150 thousand abortions are performed in Poland annually, in addition, at least several thousand Polish women go abroad for such a procedure.

The Law on the Protection of Conceived Life has consequences for those women who report to gynecology and obstetrics departments with a certificate of indication for abortion. They are the ones who clash with the conscience clause of medical workers (most often doctors) or even - although "conscience institutions do not have" - entire departments or hospitals. It is their rights, the right to health and to life, the right to full information and to care in accordance with current medical knowledge, that are violated, not to say, violated.

Women who simply don't want to be pregnant, who want to abort their pregnancies - can do so, remaining (literally reading the Law and Justice president's statement) outside the boundaries of interest of the state, which protects the rights of pregnant women as well as "conceived life" in the same paper, sham way. And no one, in the slightest, is even surprised by this, which best proves that although a great deal has changed over the past eight years, the foundations have remained intact.

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