Abortion Without Borders Activist May Be Sentenced For Supplying Abortive Pills At Upcoming Hearing
Polish Abortion Without Borders activist Justyna Wydrzyńska may be sentenced at a hearing this week for having supplied abortion pills.
What might be the last hearing of the case will take place later this week, with this trial marking the first time in Europe that an activist has been prosecuted for providing someone with abortion pills.
Wydrzyńska is an activist and member of the Abortion Dream Team and Abortion Without Borders.
She has been charged with aiding an abortion because she gave her own abortion pills to Ania, a woman she did not know.
The then-pregnant woman’s controlling husband learned about their plan and they were both busted by the police.
The Polish anti-abortion law, passed in 1993, allowed for abortion in only three cases: fetal defects, danger to the life or health of the pregnant person, or if the pregnancy was the product of a crime.
A Constitutional Tribunal tightened the law in 2020 by removing the provision about fetal defects.
People who have abortions themselves are not criminalised under Polish law, but those who directly help them are. Wydrzyńska is facing up to three years in prison.
The next hearing in Wydrzyńska’s case will take place on the 14th of October at 9:30 AM in a court in Warsaw.
There are two witnesses in this case and they were both absent from the previous two hearings. This time their presence has been confirmed.
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