Right now, our activity concerning the
changes in law and proposed modern
abortion law, as in many Western European countries,
we are legitimized by the society, by women, because they want to change the law.
First of all, this existing law doesn't
work in practice. This is a dead law
because even if we have three exceptions
for legal abortions, they are not
achievable for women because of misuse of conscientious clause, because of
stigmatization and because of Polish
gynaecologists who are not willing to perform legal abortion.
We have been observing a
huge backlash in terms of women's
reproductive and sexual health and rights in the whole - almost the whole of Europe.
It is closed by fundamentalists who are well-organized, who have huge funds for organizing campaigns,
and who work within
the European Parliament.
They provide so-called family mainstreaming policy, so
they just observe every draft bill on
gender equality, on women's rights, and
try to stop this using the
right-wing European
parliamentarians.
But we do the same!
We have also a very progressive group
within the Parliament, called All of Us,
and regularly we oppose their statements,
their opinion and their reports, because
we issue our shadow reports on the
actual situation in the region and in the country
and as the result of our activities, the European Parliament adopted
the resolution on the status of women's
reproductive and sexual health and
rights and gender equality in European
countries.
This is a very progressive resolution calling on States
to change
the situation in terms of women's human rights,
especially sexual and
reproductive health and rights.
This one was very, very strong and very
useful for us to use as advocacy tool on the national level.
Working in a regional
human rights system is a good occasion
to highlight this situation in
Poland, at the country level of course,
because there was no understanding,
especially within the Council of Europe
and its High
Commissioner that the
situation is so bad and that there are 
further threats that Polish women could
be deprived of the rest of their
reproductive rights.
We fight on behalf of million of women, and they believe in us.
And especially as it concerns Polish women,
you know we won this battle and
the whole world was looking on us and
right now, other women are
wondering if Polish women will continue or stop.
We received so many international supports
from so many small grassroots
organizations, not only huge
international organizations.
You know, Polish women were crying
listening to the solidarity words. One of our feminists
said that we will continue our fight as
long as every woman in the world would
be able to exercise all her reproductive
and sexual rights.
