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Click to expand Image People demonstrate outside a police station during 'Solidarity with Joanna' protest in Krakow, Poland on July 25, 2023. 2023 Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via AP Photo (London) - Poland's government is targeting people for alleged abortion-related activities, intensifying a climate of fear that heightens risks for women and girls, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch released a video highlighting how the government's dubious use of its powers to chase down alleged abortion-related activity threatens people's rights to privacy, autonomy, and health, amongst others. Since a near-ban on legal abortion in 2020, Polish officials have increasingly opened investigations on questionable legal grounds against women and girls seeking medical care for miscarriages or after legal medication abortions, as well as against doctors. Polish law does not criminalize having an abortion but rather anyone who provides or assists someone in having an abortion ....