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POLISH REPRO NEWS, 4 (14) /06
Federation for Women and Family Planning, Poland,
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September 2006
Polish Vice Prime Minister calls for the
constitutional protection of unborn life. A real
threat of further restrictions on the
antiabortion law in Poland is present. According
to the existing bill, termination of pregnancy is
legal to save womens life and health, when the
fetus is badly deformed or when the pregnancy is
a result of a crime. Although the law is already
restrictive, there is a political initiative to
make abortion fully illegal. Roman Giertych, the
Polish Vice Prime Minister also at the position
of Minister of National Education and the
president of the League of Polish Families (LPR)
political party appealed on Saturday to all
parliamentarians for their support for the
amendment of the article 38 of the Polish
Constitution. Article 38 states that The
Republic of Poland shall ensure the legal
protection of the life of every human being. The
LPRs proposal is to add the phrase from the
moment of conception at the end of the sentence.
Giertych claims that the introduction of the
constitutional protection of unborn life will be
a milestone in realizing John Paul II Testament.
He also dared to compare killing unborn babies with
Holocaust.
The amendment of the Article 38 will be put to
the vote in about one week. As for today,
Giertych has been already assured by the second
Vice Prime Minister, Andrzej Lepper, that his
party Self-Defence (Samoobrona) will support the
amendment. Both parties, the League of Polish
Families and Self-Defence stay in coalition with
the last election winning party Law and Justice
(PiS). Everything depends on the decision of the
PiS now but still its attitude towards the
constitutional amendment remains ambiguous and
indefinite. One of the prominent members of PiS
and the parliamentarian speaker, Marek Jurek
stated on Tuesday that indeed there is such a
need to guarantee the protection of life from the
moment of conception in the Constitution.
The League of Polish Families is known from its
nationalistic, fundamental and anti-choice
viewpoints. Last year, Maciej Giertych, Roman
Giertychs father and member of the European
Parliament, organized a radical anti-abortion
exhibition in the European Parliament in Strasbourg.
Polish Federation for Women and Family Planning
is organizing action against LPR's initiative. If
you would like to support the protest against
totally banning abortion in Poland, please sign
up our open letter:
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http://www.federa.org.pl/signatures>
http://www.federa.org.pl/signatures
Thank you for your support!
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