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Ukraine has very liberal abortion laws. In Poland, it is almost entirely illegal. Millions of Ukrainians discovered this when they fled the war in their home country and crossed the Polish border.
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST:
Imagine stepping across a border and discovering that reproductive rights you (...)
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Family of Agnieszka T say they want to ‘save other women in Poland from a similar fate’, as case met with anger over restrictive termination laws
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Protesters link woman’s death by septic shock to new restrictions on ending unviable pregnancies
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Tens of thousands have travelled to other European countries for legal terminations since near-total ban, campaigners say
At least 34,000 women in Poland are known to have sought abortions illegally or abroad since the country introduced a near total ban on terminations.
According to Abortion (...)
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While terminating a pregnancy is legal in Croatia, access to abortion is becoming increasingly challenging.
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On March 8th, 2021, International Women’s Day, I drew a lightning bolt on my mask in red lipstick, put a thermos in my backpack, and went out into the street to demand my rights. That day, instead of receiving the traditional Women’s Day gifts—a patriarchal carnation and pair of stockings—I stood (...)
The coronavirus pandemic brought pressure on working people all over the world, and especially the more vulnerable – people with disabilities, mothers of young children, low-wage and cash-in-hand workers. Women, too, belong to this more vulnerable category. Female workers and public servants had (...)
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New research from anti-extremism charities reveals ‘unexpected patterns’ of opinions towards feminism across Europe
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In Poland, something has been broken, something has overflowed. It is the end of’ a certain compromise in Poland. It is not a question of a “compromise on abortion”, because there never was one, but of a much broader systemic compromise : the Grand Compromise between the state and the Church on (...)
Poland has been gripped in recent weeks by a massive strike movement led by women in response to an attempted constitutional ban on abortion. rs21 spoke with several feminist activists in Polish union Inicjatywa Pracownicza about the movement.
rs21: What was the political situation in the (...)
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