Latest items for Poland
Nov. 3, 2025, 1:49 p.m.
Countries: Poland
Variables: ABO-LAW-1
The Center for Reproductive Rights states that Poland's laws permit abortion to preserve the health of the mother. Parental authorization/notification required. Abortion permitted in cases of incest and rape.
Variables: ABO-LAW-1
The Center for Reproductive Rights states that Poland's laws permit abortion to preserve the health of the mother. Parental authorization/notification required. Abortion permitted in cases of incest and rape.
Nov. 1, 2025, 8:10 p.m.
Countries: Poland
Variables: MISA-PRACTICE-1, MISA-DATA-1
"Raised on an low-calorie emotional diet, many Poles have turned to psychotherapy. A decade ago, it was taboo. Today, public health providers report a 145% surge in psychological consultations in 10 years… But the 22% of Poles who rushed to couches in the past five years are disproportionately young, female and unmarried" (para 15-16).
Variables: MISA-PRACTICE-1, MISA-DATA-1
"Raised on an low-calorie emotional diet, many Poles have turned to psychotherapy. A decade ago, it was taboo. Today, public health providers report a 145% surge in psychological consultations in 10 years… But the 22% of Poles who rushed to couches in the past five years are disproportionately young, female and unmarried" (para 15-16).
Nov. 1, 2025, 8:10 p.m.
Countries: Poland
Variables: MARR-PRACTICE-2
"The problem is not simply that Poles are having fewer children. Increasingly, they have no partners with whom to try. For the latest phase of gender wars impedes not only childbearing but the very formation of couples – here understood as heterosexual unions – on which birth statistics still mostly rest... At the dawn of the 20th century, only a tiny share of adults remained unmarried – smaller still in eastern Europe than in the west. In the lands of today’s Poland, scarcely 8% lived as single people... A century later, the balance has flipped. Nearly half of Poles under 30 are single. Another fifth are in relationships but live...more
Variables: MARR-PRACTICE-2
"The problem is not simply that Poles are having fewer children. Increasingly, they have no partners with whom to try. For the latest phase of gender wars impedes not only childbearing but the very formation of couples – here understood as heterosexual unions – on which birth statistics still mostly rest... At the dawn of the 20th century, only a tiny share of adults remained unmarried – smaller still in eastern Europe than in the west. In the lands of today’s Poland, scarcely 8% lived as single people... A century later, the balance has flipped. Nearly half of Poles under 30 are single. Another fifth are in relationships but live...more
Nov. 1, 2025, 8:10 p.m.
Countries: Poland
Variables: MARR-DATA-2
"Nearly half of Poles under 30 are single. Another fifth are in relationships but live apart" (para 6).
Variables: MARR-DATA-2
"Nearly half of Poles under 30 are single. Another fifth are in relationships but live apart" (para 6).
Nov. 1, 2025, 8:10 p.m.
Countries: Poland
Variables: GIC-LAW-3
"Nursery and childcare places are multiplying" (para 2).
Variables: GIC-LAW-3
"Nursery and childcare places are multiplying" (para 2).
Nov. 1, 2025, 8:10 p.m.
Countries: Poland
Variables: GIC-LAW-1
"The government now channels almost 8% of the national budget into cash transfers known as the “800 Plus” programme, so called because the state pays families 800 zlotys every month, per dependant child" (para 2).
Variables: GIC-LAW-1
"The government now channels almost 8% of the national budget into cash transfers known as the “800 Plus” programme, so called because the state pays families 800 zlotys every month, per dependant child" (para 2).
Nov. 1, 2025, 8:10 p.m.
Countries: Poland
Variables: ERBG-PRACTICE-1, ERBG-DATA-1
"Communism, in rejecting the bourgeois model of the family, propelled women into full employment and higher education, a policy that left Poland with one of the EU’s smallest gender-pay gaps" (para 17).
Variables: ERBG-PRACTICE-1, ERBG-DATA-1
"Communism, in rejecting the bourgeois model of the family, propelled women into full employment and higher education, a policy that left Poland with one of the EU’s smallest gender-pay gaps" (para 17).
Nov. 1, 2025, 8:10 p.m.
Countries: Poland
Variables: CWC-DATA-2
"Men and women are literally in different places too: internal migration has shifted the balance so that in the country’s largest cities – such as Warsaw, Łódź and Kraków – there are at least 110 women for every 100 men. Men are more likely to stay in smaller towns, away from the new economy and new norms. And so, Poland’s baby deficit is not something that can be remedied with cash bonuses, cheaper mortgages or subsidised creches. What’s faltering in the first place is not the willingness to raise a child but the capacity to build a life with someone" (para 18-19). There are concerns that women choosing to live...more
Variables: CWC-DATA-2
"Men and women are literally in different places too: internal migration has shifted the balance so that in the country’s largest cities – such as Warsaw, Łódź and Kraków – there are at least 110 women for every 100 men. Men are more likely to stay in smaller towns, away from the new economy and new norms. And so, Poland’s baby deficit is not something that can be remedied with cash bonuses, cheaper mortgages or subsidised creches. What’s faltering in the first place is not the willingness to raise a child but the capacity to build a life with someone" (para 18-19). There are concerns that women choosing to live...more
Nov. 1, 2025, 8:10 p.m.
Countries: Poland
Variables: CWC-DATA-1
"Men and women are literally in different places too: internal migration has shifted the balance so that in the country’s largest cities – such as Warsaw, Łódź and Kraków – there are at least 110 women for every 100 men. Men are more likely to stay in smaller towns, away from the new economy and new norms" (para 18).
Variables: CWC-DATA-1
"Men and women are literally in different places too: internal migration has shifted the balance so that in the country’s largest cities – such as Warsaw, Łódź and Kraków – there are at least 110 women for every 100 men. Men are more likely to stay in smaller towns, away from the new economy and new norms" (para 18).
Nov. 1, 2025, 8:10 p.m.
Countries: Poland
Variables: MARR-PRACTICE-3, CBMC-PRACTICE-1
"The family, once imagined as Poland’s unbreakable core, has begun to fray. When the Berlin Wall fell, less than 6% of children were born out of wedlock... But as that generation came of age, many chose distance over duty. Data on estrangement remain imperfect, but by one estimate up to one in four Poles under 45 has no contact with their father; up to one in 13 is cut off from their mother... When parents no longer serve as role models, stepping into parenthood yourself becomes an act of improvisation" (para 14). It is becoming more common and more acceptable for children to be raised by only one parent in...more
Variables: MARR-PRACTICE-3, CBMC-PRACTICE-1
"The family, once imagined as Poland’s unbreakable core, has begun to fray. When the Berlin Wall fell, less than 6% of children were born out of wedlock... But as that generation came of age, many chose distance over duty. Data on estrangement remain imperfect, but by one estimate up to one in four Poles under 45 has no contact with their father; up to one in 13 is cut off from their mother... When parents no longer serve as role models, stepping into parenthood yourself becomes an act of improvisation" (para 14). It is becoming more common and more acceptable for children to be raised by only one parent in...more
Nov. 1, 2025, 8:10 p.m.
Countries: Poland
Variables: CBMC-DATA-1
"The family, once imagined as Poland’s unbreakable core, has begun to fray. When the Berlin Wall fell, less than 6% of children were born out of wedlock... But as that generation came of age, many chose distance over duty. Data on estrangement remain imperfect, but by one estimate up to one in four Poles under 45 has no contact with their father; up to one in 13 is cut off from their mother" (para 14).
Variables: CBMC-DATA-1
"The family, once imagined as Poland’s unbreakable core, has begun to fray. When the Berlin Wall fell, less than 6% of children were born out of wedlock... But as that generation came of age, many chose distance over duty. Data on estrangement remain imperfect, but by one estimate up to one in four Poles under 45 has no contact with their father; up to one in 13 is cut off from their mother" (para 14).
Nov. 1, 2025, 8:10 p.m.
Countries: Poland
Variables: BR-PRACTICE-1
"A million new one-person households have materialised in the demographic ledger, quiet entries in a changing social contract... The problem is not simply that Poles are having fewer children. Increasingly, they have no partners with whom to try. For the latest phase of gender wars impedes not only childbearing but the very formation of couples – here understood as heterosexual unions – on which birth statistics still mostly rest" (para 3-4). The reasoning for Poland's low birth rate is not just explained by small families, many Poles are not getting married or are getting married later in life (LEN - CODER COMMENT).
Variables: BR-PRACTICE-1
"A million new one-person households have materialised in the demographic ledger, quiet entries in a changing social contract... The problem is not simply that Poles are having fewer children. Increasingly, they have no partners with whom to try. For the latest phase of gender wars impedes not only childbearing but the very formation of couples – here understood as heterosexual unions – on which birth statistics still mostly rest" (para 3-4). The reasoning for Poland's low birth rate is not just explained by small families, many Poles are not getting married or are getting married later in life (LEN - CODER COMMENT).
Nov. 1, 2025, 8:10 p.m.
Countries: Poland
Variables: BR-DATA-1
"In 2015… the country’s fertility rate had stalled at 1.3 children per woman, among the lowest in Europe" (para 1). "In 2024, Poland’s fertility rate collapsed to 1.1 – meaning it ranks among the world’s least fertile countries, beside war-scarred Ukraine. This year, it is poised to fall further, to 1.05" (para 3).
Variables: BR-DATA-1
"In 2015… the country’s fertility rate had stalled at 1.3 children per woman, among the lowest in Europe" (para 1). "In 2024, Poland’s fertility rate collapsed to 1.1 – meaning it ranks among the world’s least fertile countries, beside war-scarred Ukraine. This year, it is poised to fall further, to 1.05" (para 3).
Nov. 1, 2025, 8:10 p.m.
Countries: Poland
Variables: AFE-PRACTICE-2
"Communism, in rejecting the bourgeois model of the family, propelled women into full employment and higher education, a policy that left Poland with one of the EU’s smallest gender-pay gaps. By the 1980s, women already outnumbered men at universities" (para 17). This suggests that under communist ideology, societal attitudes toward women's education were largely egalitarian, viewing higher education as equally important for girls and boys (LEN - CODER COMMENT).
Variables: AFE-PRACTICE-2
"Communism, in rejecting the bourgeois model of the family, propelled women into full employment and higher education, a policy that left Poland with one of the EU’s smallest gender-pay gaps. By the 1980s, women already outnumbered men at universities" (para 17). This suggests that under communist ideology, societal attitudes toward women's education were largely egalitarian, viewing higher education as equally important for girls and boys (LEN - CODER COMMENT).
Sept. 5, 2025, 12:12 p.m.
Countries: Poland
Variables: ABO-LAW-1
"Poland and Malta are the only EU member states that retain highly restrictive laws" (2). " In 2020, Poland removed a legal ground for abortion making it the only EU member state in recent history to remove a ground for access to abortion from its law" (2). "Liechtenstein and Poland allow abortion only when a patient’s life or health is at risk or the pregnancy is the result of sexual violence" (4). The Table titled “European Abortion Laws: A Comparative Overview” shows that in Albania abortion is available for socio-economic reasons, threat to life/medical reasons, threat to health/medical reasons, and sexual violence reasons on request with a waiting period and...more
Variables: ABO-LAW-1
"Poland and Malta are the only EU member states that retain highly restrictive laws" (2). " In 2020, Poland removed a legal ground for abortion making it the only EU member state in recent history to remove a ground for access to abortion from its law" (2). "Liechtenstein and Poland allow abortion only when a patient’s life or health is at risk or the pregnancy is the result of sexual violence" (4). The Table titled “European Abortion Laws: A Comparative Overview” shows that in Albania abortion is available for socio-economic reasons, threat to life/medical reasons, threat to health/medical reasons, and sexual violence reasons on request with a waiting period and...more
Sept. 4, 2025, 12:23 p.m.
Countries: Algeria, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Canada, Cape Verde, Chile, Colombia, Comoros, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominican Republic, East Timor, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Fiji, Finland, France, Gabon, Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, Greece, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kosovo, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lebanon, Lesotho, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malaysia, Maldives, Malta, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexico, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Namibia, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Norway, Oman, Palestine, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Russia, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Trinidad/Tobago, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Vietnam, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Variables: AFE-SCALE-1
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Variables: AFE-SCALE-1
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June 24, 2025, 9:07 a.m.
Countries: Canada, Poland
Variables: AFE-DATA-1
The gender parity index (GPI) for gross secondary school enrollment (i.e. the ratio of gross enrollment of girls to gross enrollment of boys at the secondary level) is .99. This number was found by using the World Bank's data for secondary school gross enrollment for girls and boys. As of 2022, the gross enrollment rate for females is 108% while the gross enrollment rate for males is 109%. (CEC2 - CODER COMMENT).
Variables: AFE-DATA-1
The gender parity index (GPI) for gross secondary school enrollment (i.e. the ratio of gross enrollment of girls to gross enrollment of boys at the secondary level) is .99. This number was found by using the World Bank's data for secondary school gross enrollment for girls and boys. As of 2022, the gross enrollment rate for females is 108% while the gross enrollment rate for males is 109%. (CEC2 - CODER COMMENT).
April 1, 2025, 7:34 p.m.
Countries: Denmark, Italy, New Zealand, Poland, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States
Variables: IIP-PRACTICE-2
"A survey of women aged 18 – 55 in Denmark, Italy, New Zealand, Poland, Spain, Sweden, the UK and the USA found that 23 per cent of women reported at least one experience of online abuse or harassment" (para 13).
Variables: IIP-PRACTICE-2
"A survey of women aged 18 – 55 in Denmark, Italy, New Zealand, Poland, Spain, Sweden, the UK and the USA found that 23 per cent of women reported at least one experience of online abuse or harassment" (para 13).
March 3, 2025, 5:42 p.m.
Countries: Czech Republic, Latvia, Poland, Slovakia
Variables: BR-DATA-1
"After Romania, Poland (10.7 per cent), Czechia (10 per cent), Latvia (9.2 per cent), and Slovakia (7.7 per cent) saw the biggest year-on-year decline in births" (para 7).
Variables: BR-DATA-1
"After Romania, Poland (10.7 per cent), Czechia (10 per cent), Latvia (9.2 per cent), and Slovakia (7.7 per cent) saw the biggest year-on-year decline in births" (para 7).
Feb. 21, 2025, 6:35 p.m.
Countries: Poland
Variables: NGOFW-DATA-1
"Supporters of Wydrzyńska – including from her Abortion Dream Team nonprofit organisation, which helps women carry out abortions – gathered in the court" (para 4). "A network of abortion rights groups, Abortion Without Borders, said that it dealt with an 'overwhelming number of inquiries from people seeking abortion support' in Poland or abroad" (para 8).
Variables: NGOFW-DATA-1
"Supporters of Wydrzyńska – including from her Abortion Dream Team nonprofit organisation, which helps women carry out abortions – gathered in the court" (para 4). "A network of abortion rights groups, Abortion Without Borders, said that it dealt with an 'overwhelming number of inquiries from people seeking abortion support' in Poland or abroad" (para 8).
Feb. 21, 2025, 6:35 p.m.
Countries: Poland
Variables: ABO-PRACTICE-1
"Donald Tusk’s centrist governing party has so far not garnered enough support in parliament to push through its pre-election pledge to ease these laws" (para 3). "A handful of anti-abortion activists were also present outside the building, reciting Catholic prayers" (para 6). "In August, the prime minister conceded there was 'simply no majority' to deliver on his party’s pledge to allow abortion until the 12th week of pregnancy in the current parliamentary term. One of his senior lawmakers announced last month that work on relaxing the rules, some of Europe’s strictest, would resume only after the presidential election scheduled for May. Four bills to loosen the abortion law had been...more
Variables: ABO-PRACTICE-1
"Donald Tusk’s centrist governing party has so far not garnered enough support in parliament to push through its pre-election pledge to ease these laws" (para 3). "A handful of anti-abortion activists were also present outside the building, reciting Catholic prayers" (para 6). "In August, the prime minister conceded there was 'simply no majority' to deliver on his party’s pledge to allow abortion until the 12th week of pregnancy in the current parliamentary term. One of his senior lawmakers announced last month that work on relaxing the rules, some of Europe’s strictest, would resume only after the presidential election scheduled for May. Four bills to loosen the abortion law had been...more
Feb. 21, 2025, 6:35 p.m.
Countries: Poland
Variables: ABO-LAW-1
"A Polish court has ordered a retrial in the case of an activist found guilty of helping a woman to terminate her pregnancy in a symbolic moment for Poland’s abortion rights movement. Justyna Wydrzyńska was sentenced to community service in 2023 in the first such case for an activist in the EU country, which has a near-total abortion ban and outlaws abortion assistance" (para 1-2). "Currently, women can get an abortion in hospital only if the pregnancy results from sexual assault or incest or poses a direct threat to the life or health of the mother. Abortion assistance is punishable by up to three years in jail" (para 7). "In...more
Variables: ABO-LAW-1
"A Polish court has ordered a retrial in the case of an activist found guilty of helping a woman to terminate her pregnancy in a symbolic moment for Poland’s abortion rights movement. Justyna Wydrzyńska was sentenced to community service in 2023 in the first such case for an activist in the EU country, which has a near-total abortion ban and outlaws abortion assistance" (para 1-2). "Currently, women can get an abortion in hospital only if the pregnancy results from sexual assault or incest or poses a direct threat to the life or health of the mother. Abortion assistance is punishable by up to three years in jail" (para 7). "In...more
Feb. 21, 2025, 6:35 p.m.
Countries: Poland
Variables: ABO-DATA-1
"A network of abortion rights groups, Abortion Without Borders, said that it dealt with an 'overwhelming number of inquiries from people seeking abortion support' in Poland or abroad. In 2024, the network 'supported 47,000 people in accessing abortion care', it said in a report released last month. 'Abortion in Poland is a daily reality,' it added, estimating that up to 150,000 abortions were carried out each year in the predominantly Catholic country. But according to official numbers, only about 780 of those were performed in Polish hospitals in the first 10 months of 2024." (para 8-10).
Variables: ABO-DATA-1
"A network of abortion rights groups, Abortion Without Borders, said that it dealt with an 'overwhelming number of inquiries from people seeking abortion support' in Poland or abroad. In 2024, the network 'supported 47,000 people in accessing abortion care', it said in a report released last month. 'Abortion in Poland is a daily reality,' it added, estimating that up to 150,000 abortions were carried out each year in the predominantly Catholic country. But according to official numbers, only about 780 of those were performed in Polish hospitals in the first 10 months of 2024." (para 8-10).
Feb. 21, 2025, 6:25 p.m.
Countries: Poland
Variables: MARR-PRACTICE-2
"Women in Poland, like in many other countries, are conditioned from a young age to view relationships and marriage as essential parts of their lives" (para 2).
Variables: MARR-PRACTICE-2
"Women in Poland, like in many other countries, are conditioned from a young age to view relationships and marriage as essential parts of their lives" (para 2).
Feb. 21, 2025, 6:25 p.m.
Countries: Poland
Variables: DV-DATA-1
"A study commissioned by the Polish government—though still unpublished—reveals that 63% of women in Poland have experienced some form of domestic violence. The report, based on research by the Polish branch of international group Kantar, includes various types of domestic violence: physical, psychological, sexual, and economic. Psychological violence was the most common, affecting 53% of respondents, while 23% reported physical violence. Economic violence affected 13%, and 5% had suffered sexual violence" (para 1). "In cases of physical domestic violence, the perpetrators were most commonly fathers (38%), followed by husbands (24%) and other male partners (10%). With sexual violence, 50% of the perpetrators were husbands" (para 5). "In police interventions for...more
Variables: DV-DATA-1
"A study commissioned by the Polish government—though still unpublished—reveals that 63% of women in Poland have experienced some form of domestic violence. The report, based on research by the Polish branch of international group Kantar, includes various types of domestic violence: physical, psychological, sexual, and economic. Psychological violence was the most common, affecting 53% of respondents, while 23% reported physical violence. Economic violence affected 13%, and 5% had suffered sexual violence" (para 1). "In cases of physical domestic violence, the perpetrators were most commonly fathers (38%), followed by husbands (24%) and other male partners (10%). With sexual violence, 50% of the perpetrators were husbands" (para 5). "In police interventions for...more
Feb. 21, 2025, 6:25 p.m.
Countries: Poland
Variables: DV-PRACTICE-2
"A further 10% of men and 6% of women believe that violence only counts if there are visible marks on the victim’s body, such as bruises or wounds. This belief trivializes the psychological, emotional, and economic forms of abuse that so many women suffer and makes it harder for victims to seek help" (para 7).
Variables: DV-PRACTICE-2
"A further 10% of men and 6% of women believe that violence only counts if there are visible marks on the victim’s body, such as bruises or wounds. This belief trivializes the psychological, emotional, and economic forms of abuse that so many women suffer and makes it harder for victims to seek help" (para 7).
Feb. 21, 2025, 6:25 p.m.
Countries: Poland
Variables: LRW-DATA-1
"The report, based on research by the Polish branch of international group Kantar, includes various types of domestic violence: physical, psychological, sexual, and economic... 5% had suffered sexual violence" (para 1). "With sexual [domestic] violence, 50% of the perpetrators were husbands" (para 5).
Variables: LRW-DATA-1
"The report, based on research by the Polish branch of international group Kantar, includes various types of domestic violence: physical, psychological, sexual, and economic... 5% had suffered sexual violence" (para 1). "With sexual [domestic] violence, 50% of the perpetrators were husbands" (para 5).
Feb. 21, 2025, 6:25 p.m.
Countries: Poland
Variables: LRCM-PRACTICE-1
"Over 10% of men in the study expressed deeply troubling views, with some believing that rape within marriage does not exist and that a wife should always agree to her husband’s sexual demands" (para 3). "The Kantar study found that 13% of men believe that 'when it comes to sex, a wife should always agree to what the husband wants,' and 11% believe that 'rape in marriage does not exist'" (para 6).
Variables: LRCM-PRACTICE-1
"Over 10% of men in the study expressed deeply troubling views, with some believing that rape within marriage does not exist and that a wife should always agree to her husband’s sexual demands" (para 3). "The Kantar study found that 13% of men believe that 'when it comes to sex, a wife should always agree to what the husband wants,' and 11% believe that 'rape in marriage does not exist'" (para 6).
Feb. 5, 2025, 7:17 p.m.
Countries: Poland
Variables: ABO-LAW-1
"In Poland, which has some of the harshest abortion laws in Europe, allowing pregnancies to be ended only in the event of rape, incest or a threat to the mother’s health or life, restrictions were tightened further in 2020 when the country’s constitutional tribunal ruled that abortions on the grounds of foetal defects were unconstitutional" (para 14).
Variables: ABO-LAW-1
"In Poland, which has some of the harshest abortion laws in Europe, allowing pregnancies to be ended only in the event of rape, incest or a threat to the mother’s health or life, restrictions were tightened further in 2020 when the country’s constitutional tribunal ruled that abortions on the grounds of foetal defects were unconstitutional" (para 14).
Feb. 5, 2025, 6:51 p.m.
Countries: Poland
Variables: ABO-PRACTICE-1
"In Poland, where there has been a near-total ban on legal abortion since 2020, there were concerns raised earlier this year in response to a state-funded study which reported forensic tests could be used to detect abortion pills in foetal and maternal samples. A recent Human Rights Watch report found there were 'sweeping and speculative' investigations of women in Poland – including those who had a legal medical abortion. The practice, it said, 'can only be described as a witch hunt'. Last month, the New York Times claimed tests to detect abortion drugs were being used in Poland 'in rare cases' to investigate the outcomes of pregnancies, but that 'these...more
Variables: ABO-PRACTICE-1
"In Poland, where there has been a near-total ban on legal abortion since 2020, there were concerns raised earlier this year in response to a state-funded study which reported forensic tests could be used to detect abortion pills in foetal and maternal samples. A recent Human Rights Watch report found there were 'sweeping and speculative' investigations of women in Poland – including those who had a legal medical abortion. The practice, it said, 'can only be described as a witch hunt'. Last month, the New York Times claimed tests to detect abortion drugs were being used in Poland 'in rare cases' to investigate the outcomes of pregnancies, but that 'these...more