BRATISLAVA, Apr 05 (IPS) - “People want the abortion laws here liberalised. Society has changed; even the politicians can see it,” Kinga Jelinska, a Polish reproductive rights activist, says. “In four or five years, I believe, the abortion laws here will be liberalised, because it’s what the people support.”
On Tuesday, a Polish women s rights activist was found guilty of aiding an abortion . She was sentenced to 8 months of community service for providing pills to another woman. It is the first conviction of this kind in Europe.
Women's rights activist Justyna Wydrzynska has been sentenced to eight months of community service. Poland has some of the most restrictive abortion laws in Europe.
This is the first time an activist has been prosecuted for helping someone get an abortion since the right-wing government engineered a virtual ban on abortion in 2021.