Preface
In late October, the Polish Supreme Court ruled that abortion was unconstitutional and so would be outlawed in most cases. This decision was made under the nationalist Law and Justice (PiS) party. The new laws passed determine that abortions will only be allowed for pregnancies resulting from rape, incest and or when a woman’s life is at risk.
Protests
Protests began almost immediately after, with hundreds of thousands of feminists taking to the streets following the judicial announcement.
October 22, 2020
After the Polish Supreme Court ruled that abortion due to fetal defects was ‘unconstitutional’, providing…
October 22, 2020
October 23, 2020
Feminist activists and other protesters took to the streets across Poland after the restriction of…
October 23, 2020
October 28, 2020
Protesters and feminist activists in Poland have begun a general strike with hundreds of thousands…
October 28, 2020
October 28, 2020
Anarchist black blocs hit the streets in the hundreds on the 28th in Wrocław, against…
October 28, 2020
October 30, 2020
Warsaw protesters hit the streets in numbers nearing 50,000 during the National Strike against the…
October 30, 2020
November 2, 2020
Protesters across Poland, from Krakow to Gdansk, took to the streets against an abortion ban…
November 2, 2020
November 18, 2020
Protesters gathered in Warsaw to continue the Strajk Kobiet, or National Strike, against an abortion…
November 18, 2020
November 28, 2020
Hundreds of Polish anarchists in Wrocław gathered to protest against the restriction of abortion by…
November 28, 2020
December 1, 2020
The feminist Manifa Łódź collective in the Polish city of Łódź protested against police brutality…
December 1, 2020
January 27, 2021
Thousands of protesters in Warsaw took to the streets after the Constitutional Court of Poland…
January 27, 2021