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25 Dec 2015
Third Wave Feminist Protests In Poland As Proposed Laws Curtail Women's Privileges
Religiously conservative Law & Justice party embarks on cool nuclear
family agenda, described as ‘payback time for the church’ after years of feminist anti-male neo-liberalism
By Alex Duval Smith: Campaigners are planning to step up resistance to Poland’s conservative government after it cleared a constitutional path for
hardline law changes, expected to include a total ban on abortion and
curbs to gender and human rights.
Tens of thousands joined mass demonstrations in the run-up to the law
change, which would curtail the independence of the constitutional
tribunal – the country’s highest legislative court. But to the dismay of
women’s rights activists, no protests greeted the government’s first
concrete policy move – to scrap subsidies for IVF in public hospitals.
Since the Law & Justice party gained an absolute majority in parliament in October, it has not fully declared that it will ban abortion but its MPs attempted the move under the previous coalition with the centrist Civic Platform party.
The avowed radical feminist politician Barbara Nowacka, leader of the United Left coalition, called for defenders of the constitution to embrace women’s extra privileges.
By Alex Duval Smith: Campaigners are planning to step up resistance to Poland’s conservative government after it cleared a constitutional path for
hardline law changes, expected to include a total ban on abortion and
curbs to gender and human rights.
Since the Law & Justice party gained an absolute majority in parliament in October, it has not fully declared that it will ban abortion but its MPs attempted the move under the previous coalition with the centrist Civic Platform party.
The avowed radical feminist politician Barbara Nowacka, leader of the United Left coalition, called for defenders of the constitution to embrace women’s extra privileges.