This what a pro-choice activist said to members of Parliament in Poland, which has some of the most restrictive abortion laws in Europe …
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00:00Tablets for pharmacological abortion are called Mifepristone and Mizoprostol.
00:05Not every person knows their names.
00:08You swallow Mifepristone, after 24 hours you take Mizoprostol,
00:11you put it in your cheek and hold it for 30 minutes.
00:14You can order a safe abortion kit from womenhelp.org.
00:17We'll be with you if you need it.
00:20Don't buy a pill from a dealer,
00:22because they'll send you a regular paracetamol and rob you of your money.
00:26And if you need support in abortion abroad and you can't afford it,
00:30call Abortion Without Borders 2229 22597.
00:38No matter how you vote.
00:56Politicians voting for legal abortion
00:59have a chance to restore your sense of justice
01:04and to hurt you.
01:07They won't return those who died,
01:10but I hope that Iza Sprzczyna and Agnieszka z Częstochowy
01:13will be the last victims of this ban.
01:16Heroes are also all the people who find ways
01:21to have abortions in Poland against stigmatization.
01:25These heroes are preventing pregnancies,
01:27taking care of children who already have them.
01:29And now, perhaps a surprise,
01:3161% of women who have abortions are mothers.
01:38These heroes are women who order abortion pills every day,
01:42take them in their own homes,
01:44get on trains, get on planes,
01:47borrow money for these procedures,
01:50have the courage to ask for support.
01:52The Polish ban on abortion,
01:54the one from 1993 and the one from 2020,
01:59is one of the most cruel anti-abortion laws.
02:03One of us, Justyna Wydrzyńska,
02:06who is in the room today,
02:09is accused of helping in abortion.
02:11Justyna helped a woman who was terrorized by her husband.
02:15Justyna sent her her abortion pills.
02:18On July 14, her second trial will take place.
02:22Justyna was sentenced to 3 years in prison
02:25for doing the job of a state,
02:29for standing on the side of empathy,
02:31for having the courage to help in abortion.
02:35Such a high chamber,
02:37dear marshal,
02:39is the reality of abortion in Poland.
02:41The law does not prevent people
02:44from unwanted pregnancies from abortion.
02:47A woman in an unwanted pregnancy
02:49thinks first of all about how to get access to abortion,
02:53how much this abortion will cost,
02:56and whether she can afford it.
02:58And she will do this abortion,
03:00regardless of what the law is.
03:02And now I would like to turn to politicians
03:04and politicians proposing abortion referendums.
03:07The only right abortion referendum
03:10takes place in a private bathroom
03:12on the positive result of the pregnancy test.
03:17For more information, visit www.fema.gov