An activist in Poland has been sentenced to community service for giving a woman abortion pills. Justyna Wydrzynska announced her intention to appeal and continue to help women.
In 2020, a woman in her twelfth week of pregnancy contacted the organization Abortion Dream Team, which the activist founded with others. The pregnant woman had previously tried to go to an abortion clinic in Germany, but her husband prevented her from doing so. She then ordered abortion pills. Her husband noticed this and alerted the police, who confiscated the pills and launched an investigation. A miscarriage has occurred.
“New Low in Oppression”
The activist who gave the woman the pills has now been sentenced to eight months of community service (30 hours a month). “I don’t feel guilty, I don’t accept this verdict,” Wydrzynska told journalists as they left the court. She wants to appeal and continue helping women, she said. “Today’s verdict marks a new low in repression of reproductive rights in Poland: a setback for which women and girls – and those who fight for their rights – are paying a heavy price,” said Amnesty International Secretary General Agnes Callamard. .
The activist risked up to three years in prison for “complicity in an abortion” and “marketing of drugs without a license”. Traditionally Catholic Poland already had one of the most restrictive abortion laws in Europe when last year the constitutional court sided with the right-wing nationalist government and declared abortions unconstitutional, even if the fetus was malformed. According to its own statements, Abortion Dream-Team made 44,000 abortions possible last year.
Source: Krone
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