Interesting! I was in Poland about 25 years ago, and there was lots of anti-abortion propaganda around at the time, so I'm not surprised their government would pass a law like this. It seemed like...
Interesting! I was in Poland about 25 years ago, and there was lots of anti-abortion propaganda around at the time, so I'm not surprised their government would pass a law like this. It seemed like they had a lot of support for something like this back then, but I haven't been back since, so I don't know how sentiment has changed in the meantime. (I also was only visiting and saw only a small part of the country. I know that here in the US it can seem like we're strongly anti-abortion if you only see certain parts of the population. But as usual, it's not nearly that simple.)
Also, I know it's a serious topic, but my first reading of this line was probably not what the author intended:
Poland's conservative government has delayed the implementation of a ruling that would ban abortion in nearly all cases after two weeks of protests across the country.
So you could get an abortion as long as there weren't 2 weeks of protest about it across the country? Wait, no, that can't be right.
It's a bit more complicated than that. Until now the abortion was legal in special cases (severly damaged fetus, rape etc.) and since this is a pretty polarizing topic, nobody wanted to touch...
It's a bit more complicated than that. Until now the abortion was legal in special cases (severly damaged fetus, rape etc.) and since this is a pretty polarizing topic, nobody wanted to touch this. So, how it went was:
Government changed court law and put their own people in the constitution court
Government passes a question to that constitution court to ask whether the "unborn human" is a citizen and has a right to be protected by the state
Court says that yeah, they are
Church happy, government covers their backs by saying that they technically didn't change any law
That was the spark that caused massive protests all over the country, even in smaller cities. And by "massive" I mean that I haven't seen such protests since 1989.
Edit: I'm probably biased since I didn't like that government from the beginning. But that's how I understand it.
Interesting! I was in Poland about 25 years ago, and there was lots of anti-abortion propaganda around at the time, so I'm not surprised their government would pass a law like this. It seemed like they had a lot of support for something like this back then, but I haven't been back since, so I don't know how sentiment has changed in the meantime. (I also was only visiting and saw only a small part of the country. I know that here in the US it can seem like we're strongly anti-abortion if you only see certain parts of the population. But as usual, it's not nearly that simple.)
Also, I know it's a serious topic, but my first reading of this line was probably not what the author intended:
So you could get an abortion as long as there weren't 2 weeks of protest about it across the country? Wait, no, that can't be right.
It's a bit more complicated than that. Until now the abortion was legal in special cases (severly damaged fetus, rape etc.) and since this is a pretty polarizing topic, nobody wanted to touch this. So, how it went was:
That was the spark that caused massive protests all over the country, even in smaller cities. And by "massive" I mean that I haven't seen such protests since 1989.
Edit: I'm probably biased since I didn't like that government from the beginning. But that's how I understand it.
Oh yeah, I forgot about part 1. Thanks so much for the explanation!