{"id":27109,"date":"2024-10-03T09:38:35","date_gmt":"2024-10-03T09:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/z6frttwr.ordoiuris.io\/aktualnosc\/polands-ruling-coalition-bill-jeopardizes-childrens-lives-and-womens-safety\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T13:01:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T11:01:10","slug":"polands-ruling-coalition-bill-jeopardizes-childrens-lives-and-womens-safety","status":"publish","type":"informacje","link":"https:\/\/ordoiuris.pl\/en\/press-newsdesk\/polands-ruling-coalition-bill-jeopardizes-childrens-lives-and-womens-safety\/","title":{"rendered":"Poland\u2019s ruling-coalition bill jeopardizes children\u2019s lives and women\u2019s safety"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00b7 <\/span><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span>The pro-abortion lobby continues to attempt to expand legal access to abortion in Poland. <\/span><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00b7 Work is underway in the Polish Sejm on a draft amendment to the Penal Code, brought by deputies of the Left, PM Donald Tusk\u2019s Civic Coalition and the Sejm speaker\u2019s Third Way alliance <\/span><\/b>after the Left\u2019s previous draft failed to gain the necessary support<\/b><\/a>. <\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00b7 The new draft includes numerous provisions that are incompatible with Poland\u2019s Constitution and laws as well as with binding international agreements. It aims at a significant reduction of legal protection for life in the prenatal phase. <\/span><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00b7 The proposed legislation stipulates significant mitigation of criminal liability for perpetrators of the crime of illegal abortion, as well as aiding and abetting illegal abortion resulting in the death of the woman. This would entail a reduction in legal protection for pregnant women. <\/span><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00b7 The Ordo Iuris Institute has prepared a legal opinion on the draft and is calling for its rejection at the first reading.<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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In the last days of July, a draft amendment to the Penal Code, which retained the provisions of the Left\u2019s original draft, was submitted to the Sejm. (Parliamentary Draft No. 176, with an auto-amendment, was rejected by the Sejm in a vote on July 12, 2024.) The draft provides for a number of modifications to the provisions of the Penal Code concerning the termination of pregnancy. The proposed modifications are incompatible with the current standard of protection of human life under the Constitution of the Republic of Poland, the jurisprudence of the Polish Constitutional Tribunal (in particular, its 1997 ruling in case K 26\/96, which declared unconstitutional a provision allowing abortion \u201cdue to the difficult material or personal situation of the mother\u201d) and the Supreme Court, laws, and international agreements, including the international Convention on the Rights of the Child. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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The provisions of the Left\u2019s draft aim to reduce drastically the legal protection of human life in the prenatal phase, particularly through the proposed abolition of criminal liability for perpetrators of the crime of illegal abortion up to the end of the 12th week of pregnancy. Under the bill\u2019s provisions, the abrogation of criminal responsibility would also extend to activities that are now considered crimes: assisting a woman in an illegal abortion, as well as persuading her to commit the act.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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More on the Polish ruling coalition\u2019s original four abortion bills: <\/span><\/b>All or nothing. Life and death vote on pro-abortion bills<\/b><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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The authors of the draft do not limit their efforts to the legal status of the life of conceived children. They also propose resolutions according to which perpetrators of the crime of illegal abortion (including aiding and abetting) could avoid criminal responsibility, even when these actions lead to the death of a pregnant woman. The entirety of the proposed legislation indicates an overriding goal that is<\/b> not the protection of women<\/b>, as the drafters claim, but the protection of organizations and activists who are engaged in the illegal distribution of abortion pills and who commit the crime of aiding and abetting illegal abortion (Article 152 \u00a7 2 of the Polish Penal Code).<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cWhat is most shocking is that the proposed rendition of the criminal law limits liability for causing the death of a pregnant woman through an illegal abortion, which proves all the more that the drafters have no regard for the welfare of women, which they so often invoke in public speeches,\u201d concluded attorney Katarzyna G\u0119siak, director of the Ordo Iuris Center for Medical Law and Bioethics.     <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00b7 The pro-abortion lobby continues to attempt to expand legal access to abortion in Poland. \u00b7 Work is underway in the Polish Sejm on a draft amendment to the Penal Code, brought by deputies of the Left, PM Donald Tusk\u2019s Civic Coalition and the Sejm speaker\u2019s Third Way alliance after the Left\u2019s previous draft failed…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":""},"wyswietlanie":[137],"tagi":[169],"typ-wpisu":[202],"malzenstwo-i-rodzina":[],"suwerenna-i-niepodlegla-rp":[],"chronmy-dzieci-szkola-i-edukacja":[],"w-obronie-chrzescijan":[],"ochrona-zycia-i-bioetyka":[225],"wolnosc-odpowiedzialnosc":[],"class_list":["post-27109","informacje","type-informacje","status-publish","hentry","wyswietlanie-dzialalnosc-instytutu-aktualnosci-en","tagi-life-dignity","typ-wpisu-press-newsdesk","ochrona-zycia-i-bioetyka-abortion"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nPoland\u2019s ruling-coalition bill jeopardizes children\u2019s lives and women\u2019s safety - 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