It is for the parliamentary opposition of “a new tool of repression” towards women, in a country where abortion is practically prohibited.
Le Monde
In Poland, the parliamentary opposition denounced, Monday, June 6, a government provision forcing general practitioners to register pregnancies in a digital medical register, which could provide, according to her, a new tool for repression ” women, in a country where abortion is practically prohibited.
By virtue of a decree of the Minister of Health, Adam Niedzielski, information concerning pregnancy must appear in this register next to those on diseases, past or in progress, medical visits, treatments or even blood group. According to the ministry, such information will allow any doctor to help patients.
Conversely, liberal deputy Kamila Gasiuk-Pihowicz told the press that this register was born “to be able to persecute and control Polish women, create a new tool for repression, (…) of political influence of The State on our lives, on our health “.
” interfere in the lives of women “
“In another era, the transfer of such information in the system would not have caused concern, but, in the current situation, it is for us an unequivocal signal of a new attempt of the State to interfere in the lives of women, “said Joanna Pietrusiewicz, the president of a foundation defending the rights of women, cited by the daily Gazeta Wybrcza.
In addition to medical personnel, access to the digital medical register can be obtained by the prosecution – currently controlled by the nationalist populists in power – for the decision of a court, in this country where violations of the State of right have been noted several times by European bodies.
According to MP Katarzyna Lubnauer, “for six years, slices by edge, the reproductive rights of women are restricted” in Poland. “First, we introduce emergency contraception on prescription (…), then in vitro fertilization is no longer funded by the state budget, (…) then intervenes this brutal verdict of the Constitutional Court”, Who prohibited, in October 2020, abortion in the event of serious malformation of the fetus. Under the law, a woman who carried out a voluntary termination of pregnancy is not prosecuted by the justice, unlike the doctor who practiced it or to the people who helped her.
Poland, a predominantly Catholic country, has one of the most restrictive laws in matters of abortion in Europe. Today, there are less than two thousand legal abortions per year in the country, according to official data. Feminist organizations also estimate that around 200,000 abortion are carried out illegally or abroad each year.