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@MartaHabior
I don't have too many Catholics among my friends. I have one friend who has always been and is deeply religious and practicing. She is a mother. He works in a sector where it is better to 'keep a low profile' against the government. Here it is. Today. My jaw dropped
Until now there were three exceptions: when the mother’s life is in danger, in cases of rape or incest, and in cases of severe and irreversible fetal defects.
In a ruling on October 22nd the pis-controlled Constitutional Tribunal said that women would no longer be able to cite severe fetal defects as a reason for having an abortion.
If in case you want to help in anyway. There is -
Ogólnopolski Strajk Kobiet (eng. All-Polish Women Strike) is the one that organizes protests and these women are everything.
Aborcyjny Dream Team (eng. Abortion Dream Team) are a group of women that help Polish have an abortion so we can do it safely abroad and they often also help financially if someone wants to have one but doesn't have money for that.
Hello there Reddit. Im Polish. I see that you need some background information regarding what is going on in Poland. Its not as simple as what some people say. For a while now, Jaroslaw Kaczynski's political party (PiS) was suffering due to bad decisions regarding covid and some agricultural reforms. Country town /farming community used to be huge supporter of PiS, yet recently, PiS introduced some bills that hit directly at farmers. Its mainly about baning killing certain animals or even raising them to sell their furs. Furthermore due to covid they screwed up with setting up mail voting process for presidential elections which took place this year. They lost milions of tax payers money on that. They wanted to make sure everyone would vote even though it was middle of a pandemic. It was first wave so people were scared and especially elderly people didnt really think much about going to vote. So mail vote was their idea to win this. Due to some legislature disaster, Anti-PiS senate held the "mail-vote-bill" for their max 30 days period which made it impossible to set it in motion before the end date during which presidential elections had to take place according to our consitution. PiS wanted to be clever and hoped to make it on time so they went with preparing the mail vote system as the bill was processed by the senate. They spent milions to prepare it and failed - they didnt make it in time. Soooo - because Poland wasnt that much affected by covid (we had 200-300 cases daily at peaks) they informed the public that covid is defeated in Poland to spark higher attendance of elderly people who are mostly loyal towards PiS. They won presidential elections by small marging of votes. However - this tactic of covid ignorance, not only sparked high presidential elections attendance but also made people ignore covid in Poland. People believed covid is not our problem anymore including the politicians. PiS didnt take so called "2'nd wave" seriously. All the lockdown measures performed in april/may which worked, slowed down the spread of virus and in some moments - almost stopped it (at one point we had more people being cured daily than getting sick) were lifted. So here came spetember and october. Daily cases are hitting close to 20k. Our hospitals are slowly reaching max capacity. Very late PiS response to the epidemic is giving its signs now. They tried to buy more ventilators ASAP but the company which was chosen to sell them appeared to be a scam. Polish govt again paid milions to get little to nothing in return (they ignored all the background check protocols etc.) Every week is worse than the last. Add to this the situation with farmers protesting and latest polls showing that they are losing public support. Its a disaster for PiS.
What we do??? What we do???
I know!!!
Lets give them something else to focus on. It will draw their attention from real problems. Lets ask OUR Constitutional Court to analyze 27 year old abortion policy.
Ofcourse the verdict is known before procedure starts because head of Consitutional Court is friend of Jaroslaw Kaczynski (which he admited publicly).
So yes...what was planned is now set in motion. Verdict is announced and the public gets outraged. They protest. JK gets what he wanted. So many people out protesting together. Finally someone he can blame the "covid disaster" on. "Its them who are spreading the virus in masses. We banned gatheings of 5+ people and look what they do".
Its all planned. People got played. Kaczynski played them like children who dont want to go to sleep - you tell them a story and they do what you want.
Additional bonus was the fact that some protesters attacked churches - disturbed the gatherings, sprayed some slurs on the walls etc. JK used this to unite his recently divided supporters. He created an internal enemy who wants to destroy Poland from the inside. He even adressed all his supporters and political partners in PUBLIC video clip. Why do think he made it public and easy to access when never before he took such steps? To play on emotions - get his supporters back.
Divide and conquer. Nation divided is easy to conquer and rule. Since people were starting to face away from PiS and siding with the opposition - it had to be done.
Hope I got you this far. To end this long post - Polish political situation is complicated. I only spoke here about general situation and what was going on. I didnt get into too many details because I would have to write a book. If someone is into politics, recent 5-6 years of polish political history is amazing story of how you can legally take over entire country. JK is an old and tiny man in posture but inteligent and great tactician. If his views were not so out-of-date, so anti-eu and driven by populism, he could have done great things for this country. Abortion crisis is a smoke cover of other issues. People were driven out to the streets by emotions and thats exactly what JK wanted. Never underestimate him and his decisions. Political power is all that he has left in his life (he has no wife, no children - only his cat, kind of like the bad villain from early James Bond movies). He wont give it away cheap
Spartan2470 on November 2nd, 2020 at 13:24 UTC »
Here is a less cropped version of this image. Here is the source. Per there (and Google Translate):
Sumit316 on November 2nd, 2020 at 13:55 UTC »
For those who don't know -
If in case you want to help in anyway. There is -
Ogólnopolski Strajk Kobiet (eng. All-Polish Women Strike) is the one that organizes protests and these women are everything.
Aborcyjny Dream Team (eng. Abortion Dream Team) are a group of women that help Polish have an abortion so we can do it safely abroad and they often also help financially if someone wants to have one but doesn't have money for that.
Hoz85 on November 2nd, 2020 at 17:31 UTC »
Hello there Reddit. Im Polish. I see that you need some background information regarding what is going on in Poland. Its not as simple as what some people say. For a while now, Jaroslaw Kaczynski's political party (PiS) was suffering due to bad decisions regarding covid and some agricultural reforms. Country town /farming community used to be huge supporter of PiS, yet recently, PiS introduced some bills that hit directly at farmers. Its mainly about baning killing certain animals or even raising them to sell their furs. Furthermore due to covid they screwed up with setting up mail voting process for presidential elections which took place this year. They lost milions of tax payers money on that. They wanted to make sure everyone would vote even though it was middle of a pandemic. It was first wave so people were scared and especially elderly people didnt really think much about going to vote. So mail vote was their idea to win this. Due to some legislature disaster, Anti-PiS senate held the "mail-vote-bill" for their max 30 days period which made it impossible to set it in motion before the end date during which presidential elections had to take place according to our consitution. PiS wanted to be clever and hoped to make it on time so they went with preparing the mail vote system as the bill was processed by the senate. They spent milions to prepare it and failed - they didnt make it in time. Soooo - because Poland wasnt that much affected by covid (we had 200-300 cases daily at peaks) they informed the public that covid is defeated in Poland to spark higher attendance of elderly people who are mostly loyal towards PiS. They won presidential elections by small marging of votes. However - this tactic of covid ignorance, not only sparked high presidential elections attendance but also made people ignore covid in Poland. People believed covid is not our problem anymore including the politicians. PiS didnt take so called "2'nd wave" seriously. All the lockdown measures performed in april/may which worked, slowed down the spread of virus and in some moments - almost stopped it (at one point we had more people being cured daily than getting sick) were lifted. So here came spetember and october. Daily cases are hitting close to 20k. Our hospitals are slowly reaching max capacity. Very late PiS response to the epidemic is giving its signs now. They tried to buy more ventilators ASAP but the company which was chosen to sell them appeared to be a scam. Polish govt again paid milions to get little to nothing in return (they ignored all the background check protocols etc.) Every week is worse than the last. Add to this the situation with farmers protesting and latest polls showing that they are losing public support. Its a disaster for PiS.
What we do??? What we do???
I know!!!
Lets give them something else to focus on. It will draw their attention from real problems. Lets ask OUR Constitutional Court to analyze 27 year old abortion policy.
Ofcourse the verdict is known before procedure starts because head of Consitutional Court is friend of Jaroslaw Kaczynski (which he admited publicly).
So yes...what was planned is now set in motion. Verdict is announced and the public gets outraged. They protest. JK gets what he wanted. So many people out protesting together. Finally someone he can blame the "covid disaster" on. "Its them who are spreading the virus in masses. We banned gatheings of 5+ people and look what they do".
Its all planned. People got played. Kaczynski played them like children who dont want to go to sleep - you tell them a story and they do what you want.
Additional bonus was the fact that some protesters attacked churches - disturbed the gatherings, sprayed some slurs on the walls etc. JK used this to unite his recently divided supporters. He created an internal enemy who wants to destroy Poland from the inside. He even adressed all his supporters and political partners in PUBLIC video clip. Why do think he made it public and easy to access when never before he took such steps? To play on emotions - get his supporters back.
Divide and conquer. Nation divided is easy to conquer and rule. Since people were starting to face away from PiS and siding with the opposition - it had to be done.
Hope I got you this far. To end this long post - Polish political situation is complicated. I only spoke here about general situation and what was going on. I didnt get into too many details because I would have to write a book. If someone is into politics, recent 5-6 years of polish political history is amazing story of how you can legally take over entire country. JK is an old and tiny man in posture but inteligent and great tactician. If his views were not so out-of-date, so anti-eu and driven by populism, he could have done great things for this country. Abortion crisis is a smoke cover of other issues. People were driven out to the streets by emotions and thats exactly what JK wanted. Never underestimate him and his decisions. Political power is all that he has left in his life (he has no wife, no children - only his cat, kind of like the bad villain from early James Bond movies). He wont give it away cheap