Justyna Wydrzyńska, whose case has been closely followed by human rights groups, has been sentenced her to eight months of community service.
The case of Justyna Wydrzyńska has been closely watched by human rights activists, who believe it will set a precedent in a country with some of Europe’s most restrictive abortion legislation.They feared that the charges and a guilty verdict would create an atmosphere of repression that would intimidate women’s rights activists and discourage them from assisting women seeking abortions.
Justyna Wydrzyńska sits at the court in Warsaw, Poland, on Tuesday, March 14, 2023. A court on Tuesday convicted her for helping a victim of domestic violence access abortion pills in Poland and sentenced her to eight months of community service.Ordo Iuris, an ultra-Catholic legal institute which joined the case on the side of the prosecution as an interested party, welcomed the ruling as “an important step towards real respect for the right to life of unborn children in force in Poland.
Prosecutors had charged Wydrzyńska with “helping with an abortion,” a crime punishable up by to three years in prison, for helping a woman in 2020 to obtain the pills. Wydrzyńska will appeal the case, according to Polish media reports. She’s the co-founder of the Abortion Dream Team, an organization that provides women seeking abortions with information and support.Poland, a predominantly Catholic country, forbids abortion in almost all cases, with exceptions only when a woman’s life or health is endangered or if the pregnancy results from rape or incest.
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