The pregnant wife of a Catholic activist contacted Justyna Wydrzynska for help in 2020. 'Helping her was my first human response,' Wydrzynska said.
Wydrzyńska said that before Ania reached out to ADT, she tried to travel to Germany to get an abortion, but was stopped by her abusive husband, who is reportedly a Catholic activist. Since Ania was already close to 12 weeks pregnant, which ADT recommends as the cut-off for safe use of abortion pills, Wydrzyńska said she realized they were “running out of time” and directly sent the woman the abortion pills she kept in her home for herself.
When the package arrived, Ania’s husband called the police; Ania ultimately miscarried the pregnancy from distress. Over a year later, Wydrzyńska was confronted by police at her home. They confiscated her abortion pills and computers and lodged criminal charges against her.DW reports that Wydrzyńska’s trial is set to wrap in February, and both Ania and Ania’s activist husband will likely be called in as witnesses. Even amid her ongoing court hearings, Wydrzyńska told DW she’s still helping pregnant people who contact ADT seeking help. “When women call, we start with the most important question: How far along in your pregnancy are you?” Wydrzyńska said. If callers are past 12 weeks, they’re often referred to Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic, or the Netherlands for procedural abortion, where ADT has organizers on the ground to support Polish abortion seekers. “The Polish government is forcing women to travel thousands of kilometers abroad in order to have abortion,” Wydrzyńska told DW. Of course, Poland’s abortion ban has failed to write abortion out of existence. In 2021,
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