· The UN-affiliated Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) has assessed that Poland’s abortion laws are too strict and thus violate women’s rights.
20.08.2024
• The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled that Poland violated a prisoner's right to privacy because the prison where he was serving his sentence did not provide him with access to female hormones.
16.08.2024
- Lawyers of the Ordo Iuris Institute received a response from the Minister of Foreign Affairs to a request for intervention in the Klaman family case.
04.08.2024
• A Polish couple, who had previously fled to Poland to get away from the Swedish social services, contacted the lawyers of the Ordo Iuris Institute for help after their children had been taken away from them and brought to Sweden.
· The issue of abortion remains a subject of intense public debate in Poland. Over the past 30 years, numerous public opinion polls have been conducted on the subject.
· Their results show that support for eugenic abortion has declined since 1992, with an increase recorded only incidentally.
· The majority of Poles also do not support so-called abortion on demand and abortion motivated by the mother's difficult situation.
• The Strasbourg Court receives many complaints about the ban on eugenic abortion in Poland.
• According to the applicants, the inability to undergo a eugenic abortion violates their right to privacy and the prohibition of torture.
• The vast majority of complaints come from women who are not even pregnant.