Abortion came back – and it disappeared immediately. Last week the Sejm debated and voted on printing 611, which includes a parliamentary task to decriminalise aid in abortion. Although the draft was prepared by an extraordinary committee, set up to agree the positions of all 3 groups in the Coalition on 15 October, this is not a government proposal, but a parliamentary one, tabled by the Members of the Left and the Civic Coalition. This time the vote was not accompanied, Like in July, disciplining the vote of Prime Minister Tusk, ordering Members to stand up and honour the electoral agreement.
Again we heard a constant set of arguments. Not only that we have the most restrictive anti-abortion laws in Europe, we inactive convict a woman, just erstwhile she is the most vulnerable, she fears and needs aid – to be alone. Her mother, father, brother, boyfriend or friend will not aid her due to the fact that For that kind of help, any of them could go to jail.. For driving me to the hospital, buying pills for a drug abortion, for being there for her.
Existing laws make a female who has a serious, vital or existential problem erstwhile a fetus threatens her life and wellness creates a vacuum. She can't even ask for aid from her loved ones. Of course, women who are already more hard to get into this vacuum, due to the fact that they deficiency the means and the chance to go abroad and halt their pregnancy in a good clinic, under the care of doctors.
PiS MPs, Confederates and Free Republicans recalled all the hideous, contemptible, cynical, drastic and false thesis accusing women of infanticide. There were statements that it was adequate for a girl to watch herself, to be about traumas, about the sanctity of life (as the same people said, who so enthusiastically supported decryminalization) shooting migrants), was even a song sung by an MP on behalf of the fetus. MP Marek Jakubiak of the Free Republicans He's perjured about it.that women would be adequate “a small careful” and would not be a problem.
There was nothing about the fact that right-wing Members most likely like to find dead children in cabbage barrels, freezers and buckets due to the fact that specified stories give them an chance to feel their moral superiority. After all, they all know that the ban on abortion and deprivation of women's aid does not make children born only in families waiting for them, nor will there be any harm to the fetus, to developmental pathology, to dying, mutations.
On the another hand, the arguments from the PSL bench were interesting, quoting a survey showing that Poles occupy everyday matters, prices in shops, wellness care, education, work and housing more than abortion. Yes, yes, it was the apartments that were reminded of by the PSL MPs, although this is what They're fraternizing with developers. and are against the improvement of municipal housing. For the miracle of not connecting the dots, they most likely pray all evening, due to the fact that there seems to be no another explanation for this twisted logic that makes them say that since the Poles have no place to live, they no longer care about abortion.
Another conclusion is that women's reproductive rights will not play a large function in the presidential election due to the fact that they are not curious enough. There's something about it. fewer people are closely interested, and there will be even fewer, due to the fact that very fewer people are pregnant at the moment. Women in Poland do not want to have children. Mother's Childhood The lowest in history, one of the lowest in Europe and the worldAnd 1 reason is that women don't feel safe.
American Lesson
Politicians in Poland are now eager to look for clues across the ocean. In the Republican state of Missouri, although Trump was elected to the White home and a Republican was besides sent to the Senate, the majority of voters supported the right to abortion in the state referendum. Does this mean that the right to abort pregnancy is crucial to women? At least, our fellow Members say: since Trump, who, after all, has won, and together with his vice-president, the elect, is openly in favour of a complete ban on abortion, it is clearly not worth investing in a progressive electorate. possibly it's better to bow to the conservatives.
Indeed: almost all black women and 79 percent black men voted for Kamala Harris, but white women (52%) voted for Trump, as did whites (59%) and Latins (54%) men. Most Latin women voted for Harris (61 to 37 percent).
The voters are not only guided by the promise that they will be better, but are besides guarding their privileges. The more they defender them, the greater the inequality. The warrant of male, patriarchal, and racial privileges in the eyes of voters proved to be Trump. His rudeness, misogyny, racism and contempt were a signal to all those who want to stay in their positions, who felt threatened by “gender”, the emancipation of women, or possibly the fact that black people in America began organizing, showing strength in the marches of the Black Lives substance movement.
The retreat from progressiveism, the escape from change, the return of young men to libertarians, populists and politicians openly resorting to fascist language is simply a phenomenon that is clearly visible not only in the US, but besides in Europe and Poland. But why do politicians of the ruling coalition connect to this trend and want to accelerate it?
Perhaps they felt that in order to keep power, 1 should fraternize with young, statistically little educated and poorer men who do not see the possible of decent work, living, and sometimes even to start a household – to pat them on the shoulder and promise that the planet inactive belongs to them. By doing nothing to make them better, they are convinced that their anger is right. That they would recover what they had lost, and that they would emergence again above women. Sławomir Mentzen wrote on X, that Trump's triumph "is the hope that past will turn around".
Then, yes, a tactically good decision is to force women to stay silent and obey. Let them feel alone, powerless, pacified, and driven to the kitchen, where they are to pray for a healthy fetus, and so that no 1 knows it was from rape. yet 4 years ago, Mr Sławomir Nitras He warned me. In the Parliament, Ms Anna Maria Żukowska: “When we regulation with the Confederacy, we will regulation and the Confederacy will take care of you.”
That's what happens in front of us. populist, anti-democratic, anti-female turn.
With whom the Liberals hold
Going to the elections on 15 October last year, at least part of the society stood up for democracy – the 1 that was, not any future. Not in defence of the rights that we were just promised, but those organization certaintys that we lost under the Law and Justices. due to the fact that failure hurts very much – and the reluctance to lose what you already have is stronger than hope based on vague promises. Women are besides more willing to stand up for their rights than to ask for mercy. It's a known intellectual mechanism, described even in management books.
So if the politicians of the current coalition were determined to push the populists distant effectively and for long, if these politicians did not want to regulation under the dictatorship of young, frustrated men, and if they truly feared how under their force the full strategy leans towards fascism, they could do 1 simple thing: give women reproductive rights.
The decriminalization of abortion aid voted by the Coalition on 15 October would be a sign for women that there is something to fight for. It is known that the bill would wait for the signature of the fresh president – but then women would have something to defend and possibly would be much more inclined to go to the election next year and choose a president who is known to sign this bill. That would be a concrete, not vague promise.
However, specified a thought is not seen in Polish mediocre liberals. Politicians of the ruling coalition are absolutely convinced that the voice of women and all left-wing communities (or at least a small more progressive than today's position quo) is in their pocket. Now they are clearly seeking the attention of the right-wing electors, who are increasingly expressing their support for the Confederacy.
By going that way, they can lose anything, but their failure will be our loss.
