Warsaw, Poland – Polish abortion activists opened a center on the other side of the parliament building in Warsaw on Saturday, where women can go to abortion with birth control pills, either alone or with other women.
The opening of the International Women’s Day Center for the legislature was a symbolic challenge for the authorities in the traditional Roman Catholic nation, which has one of the most restricted laws of Europe.
A small group, but with a loud voice of the demonstrators outside the center while activists gathered inside to install it. Activists had special security guards, while the police also separated the demonstrators from those inside.
Activists at Dream Dream Group says it is the first fixed abortion center in Poland. Supported to women who prefer not to perform abortion on their own in their bathrooms at home.
They also say that they want to pressure politicians and abolish abortion in a society where they say out of every four women who had this procedure, but it is still a matter of taboos.
The country’s middle Prime Minister, Donald Tusk, reached power in elections in 2023, pledged to liberate the country’s abortion law. But the coalition that leads it extends to a wide ideological gap, with legislators on the left who want to legalize abortion and strongly oppose the conservatives.
Last year, he acknowledged that he lacks support in Parliament to change the law. Allowing the miscarriage until the twelfth week of pregnancy was one of his promises.