Pro-choice activist speaks to Polish Parliament

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This what a pro-choice activist said to members of Parliament in Poland, which has some of the most restrictive abortion laws in Europe …

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00:00Tablets for pharmacological abortion are called Mifepristone and Mizoprostol.

00:05Not every person knows their names.

00:08You swallow Mifepristone, after 24 hours you take Mizoprostol,

00:11you put it in your cheek and hold it for 30 minutes.

00:14You can order a safe abortion kit from womenhelp.org.

00:17We'll be with you if you need it.

00:20Don't buy a pill from a dealer,

00:22because they'll send you a regular paracetamol and rob you of your money.

00:26And if you need support in abortion abroad and you can't afford it,

00:30call Abortion Without Borders 2229 22597.

00:38No matter how you vote.

00:56Politicians voting for legal abortion

00:59have a chance to restore your sense of justice

01:04and to hurt you.

01:07They won't return those who died,

01:10but I hope that Iza Sprzczyna and Agnieszka z Częstochowy

01:13will be the last victims of this ban.

01:16Heroes are also all the people who find ways

01:21to have abortions in Poland against stigmatization.

01:25These heroes are preventing pregnancies,

01:27taking care of children who already have them.

01:29And now, perhaps a surprise,

01:3161% of women who have abortions are mothers.

01:38These heroes are women who order abortion pills every day,

01:42take them in their own homes,

01:44get on trains, get on planes,

01:47borrow money for these procedures,

01:50have the courage to ask for support.

01:52The Polish ban on abortion,

01:54the one from 1993 and the one from 2020,

01:59is one of the most cruel anti-abortion laws.

02:03One of us, Justyna Wydrzyńska,

02:06who is in the room today,

02:09is accused of helping in abortion.

02:11Justyna helped a woman who was terrorized by her husband.

02:15Justyna sent her her abortion pills.

02:18On July 14, her second trial will take place.

02:22Justyna was sentenced to 3 years in prison

02:25for doing the job of a state,

02:29for standing on the side of empathy,

02:31for having the courage to help in abortion.

02:35Such a high chamber,

02:37dear marshal,

02:39is the reality of abortion in Poland.

02:41The law does not prevent people

02:44from unwanted pregnancies from abortion.

02:47A woman in an unwanted pregnancy

02:49thinks first of all about how to get access to abortion,

02:53how much this abortion will cost,

02:56and whether she can afford it.

02:58And she will do this abortion,

03:00regardless of what the law is.

03:02And now I would like to turn to politicians

03:04and politicians proposing abortion referendums.

03:07The only right abortion referendum

03:10takes place in a private bathroom

03:12on the positive result of the pregnancy test.

03:17For more information, visit www.fema.gov

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