Similar efforts already underway in the US with privately run conservative “pregnancy care centers”, which are not legally required to follow healthcare privacy laws and and receive state funding in 22 states.

Jezebel article: https://jezebel.com/poland-which-bans-nearly-all-abortions-has-created-a-1849028586

AP article: https://apnews.com/article/abortion-health-poland-womens-rights-7f2f2839c43e9655d3d898d1ddd4bbe8

    • Shoegazer [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      No one is reactionary in this world. Everyone is a liberal by default until the age of 10 where they have to choose between Putin and the free world.

    • Ligma_Male [comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      2x get a lot of trolls so they're understandably ban-happy but that's just ridiculous

  • replaceable [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Fun fact, more than half of poland's population is in favour of at least returning to the situation that was before the ban, i love living in a free and democratic society and not under oppressive communism

  • Lilith [she/her]
    hexagon
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    2 years ago

    Photo is from when people attended a protest in Krakow, Poland on November 7, 2021 after the death of a 30-year-old woman, Iza, of septic shock in her 22nd week of pregnancy. Iza was denied abortion care despite her condition and that of her unborn baby. (Photo: Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

  • ssjmarx [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    absolute monsters. of course the main effect of this is that more Polish women will avoid getting healthcare if they think they might be pregnant, and Polish women who actually have miscarriages will be spuriously charged with crimes.

    • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      miscarriages are not particularly rare, either, especially when it's a woman's first pregnancy. it's obviously an incredibly traumatic situation already without the abortion gestapo questioning if you just did an illegal abortion.

  • culpritus [any]
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    2 years ago

    comment on Jezebel article just :chefs-kiss: :brainworms:

    Please don’t spout the Catholic stuff about Poland. Much has changed here, most of Catholics here are in name only. It’s the ruling party that is fundamentalist. The party that was chosen by voters because their predecessors were corrupt to the bone, were running the country into the ground and there was no better choice. Then PiS (the Catholic fundamentalists) created the first real financial support system for families with children, winning people over. This is what keeps them in power - socialism, not religion.

    • no better choice
    • socialism is when you give families financial support
    • socialism is when you ban abortion
  • MikeHockempalz [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Poland really doing everything in its power to claim the coveted "most cringe European country" award. Giving the Brits a run for their money

    • Lilith [she/her]
      hexagon
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      2 years ago

      The Brits aren't European, they're just an embarrassment.

      • chlooooooooooooo [she/her]
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        2 years ago

        british ppl are totally european. it annoys the chuds amongst them when you say so, so you should say so.

        • Lilith [she/her]
          hexagon
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          2 years ago

          I've only had posh Brits claim they were European and said otherwise to piss them off. Depends on your audience.

          :ukkk:

      • Alaskaball [comrade/them]M
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        2 years ago

        The Brits are fucking island Germans, in the same way the Dutch are bog Germans.

    • UmbraVivi [he/him, she/her]
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      2 years ago

      Pretty sure Poland is substantially worse than Britain. In general, the main reason we hear so much more about TERF island being shit is because we can understand their cringe takes without subtitles. We simply don't hear much about when some random Polish politician does a fascism in an interview because they tend to do it in Polish.

      Edit: Please do not misunderstand this as me defending Britain :ukkk:

      • MikeHockempalz [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Maybe right now Poland is worse than Britain. But if we take a gander at the all-time scoreboard you'll see that Britain has racked up a truly unparalleled amount of cringe over a career spanning nearly 1000 years. Poland could only dream of having such a huge negative effect on the world

  • BeamBrain [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    I sure am glad we freed them from the evils of communism

    • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      in the 70s, women from Denmark used to go to Poland for abortions

  • Snackuleata [any]
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    2 years ago

    When Ukraine falls this is who the liberals will rally behind.