Pole appeals to EU court after abortion is denied

[deadparrot]

BRUSSELS A Polish woman who was denied an abortion in Poland took her case to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg on Tuesday, citing what she described as a rising tide of opposition against women's rights in Poland after a conservative government won election last year.

The case comes at a sensitive time in Europe, where there is uncertainty about the attitude of the new Polish leadership, headed by the twin brothers Lech and Jaroslaw Kaczynski, who campaigned on traditional Roman Catholic and family values toward such issues as abortion and homosexuality.

Alicja Tysiac, 35, an unemployed single mother of three children from Warsaw who suffers from severe myopia, appealed to the court that the Polish government had violated her rights after a doctor insisted in 2000 that she go ahead with the birth of her third child despite warnings from ophthalmologists that she could go blind.

"There is stigma here surrounding abortion," Wanda Nowiska, president of the Polish Federation for Women and Family Planning, which is supporting the case, said in a telephone interview from the court in Strasbourg.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/02/07/news/poland.php?rss

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. I'm glad she went to the Court

these people who think that the health of a mother is inconsequential to the development of a zygote into a fetus don't have their priorities straight, I think.

[pop goes the weasel]

2. makes me so mad

This is what will be happening in the US if the relgious fascists get their way. They obviously care neither for women or for children.