Poland Voting on Abortion Ban.

EXCLUSIVE: Poland to vote on historic bill banning all abortions after massive grassroots campaign


WARSAW, Poland, June 28, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) - After months of shielding the initiative from English media, organizers of a massive pro-life grassroots campaign in Poland have now told LifeSiteNews.com that Parliamentarians in the country are preparing to vote this week on an historic bill that would enshrine total protection for children in the womb from the moment of conception.

The organizers told LSN that they were worried that if the news broke in the English-speaking world, pro-abortion foreign powers would have poured money into the country to oppose their popular efforts.
Legislators in Poland's parliament will vote this week on a bill to ban all abortions in the country.

To bring the abortion ban before Parliament under Poland’s political system, the sponsors needed to collect 100,000 signatures within three months. They got 600,000 in two weeks.

The bill, which comes up for first reading in the ‘Sejm’ (lower house) on Thursday, is the result of a huge nation-wide grassroots initiative launched by Warsaw’s PRO Foundation and supported by the country’s bishops and a newly-formed pro-life parliamentary committee.

Abortion was first foisted on the deeply Catholic people of Poland after Hitler’s tanks stormed the country 70 years ago; but the demise of the Nazis was followed by decades of state-promoted abortion-on-demand under their Soviet successors.

“This project is a chance to finally reject the heritage of Nazism and Communism which brought ‘legal abortion’ to Poland in the first place,” Jacek Sapa of the PRO Foundation told LifeSiteNews. “It was Hitler and Stalin who imposed it on Poles and it’s high time we clearly disassociate ourselves from those deadly ideologies.”

“The Church clearly teaches that it is the obligation of Catholics not to protect the current ‘compromise’ but to aim at complete protection of life,” said Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz, former personal assistant to Blessed John Paul II, in an interview for Gosc Niedzielny, Poland’s largest opinion weekly. “This is a solution, which the Church calls for. I support all efforts aiming at improving the protection of human life.”

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Looking at the statistics though this legislation will only affect a small number of women if passed, as unlike our figures of around 200,00 abortions yearly, in Poland there are few abortions anyway

A very controversial and emotive subject Seren. I think a total ban on abortion will only lead to the suffering and potential deaths of young women and girls. Many will seek illegal back-street abortions in desperation or try to self-induce the loss of the baby

Keeping it legal means that it can be properly regulated to ensure women's safety.

If a country votes on it to be made illegal then do we have the right to impose our opinions on them though.

If in our brave new world we can do this then I'd rather outlaw GM in Somalia to be honest

I wouldn't impose my opinion on anyone let alone a whole country! It doesn't stop me having it though

Abortions may be made illegal but it won't stop it happening. It will be driven underground in my opinion and that can't be a good thing

Seren wrote:If a country votes on it to be made illegal then do we have the right to impose our opinions on them though.

If in our brave new world we can do this then I'd rather outlaw GM in Somalia to be honest

Why one or the other?