1/. Tonight, in cities across #Poland, tens of thousands of women were back on the streets

Tomorrow, a draconian ruling that imposes a near total-ban on abortion is expected to come into effect
#NigdyNieBedzieszSzłaSama
#Strajkobiet #wypierdalać
2/. Abortion was only legally available to women in #Poland in cases of rape & incest, foetal abnormality, or if there was a threat to the mother’s life

The new removes the exception for cases of foetal abnormality

This was Warsaw tonight👇
#StrajkKobiet
3/. #BREAKING: The ruling has now been published & the law is now in force

AMNESTY REACTION:

"This the latest in a coordinated & systematic wave of attacks on women’s rights in #Poland & we stand in solidarity with women & girls in Poland"
#StrajkKobiet amnesty.org/en/latest/news…
4/. More than 50 countries have improved access to abortion in the past 25 years

It was decriminalised in South Korea in 2021

In Argentina it was 2020

In Ireland it was 2019

Poland is swimming against the tide!
#NigdyNieBędzieszSzłaSama
#StrajkKobiet
5/. Women are on the streets of #Poland tonight

In Warsaw, demonstrators headed to the Constitutional Court or - as @strajkkobiet commented - “what used to be a Constitutional Court"

Some climbed over the fence

Footage via @WawaZakrzewski
#StrajkKobiet
6/. Journalist, @MarcinTerlik, is with demonstrators in front of the Constitutional Court & took this footage.

He tweets: “Demonstrators demand that the detainees be released. The atmosphere today is more tense than yesterday.”
#StrajkKobiet #wypierdalać
7/. Here @MarcinTerlik posts footage from outside #Poland’s Constitutional Court & says:

“Scuffles with the police during #strajkkobiet protests. Some of the demonstrators broke the cordon”

It appears that demonstrators may have been ‘kettled’ by police

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It’s big on Insta but some are even on Twitter
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