Today there is simply a debate in the Sejm on 4 abortion projects. It is attended by representatives of both pro-abortion organisations and pro-life. 307 people and 30 organisations were involved. The proceeding is expected to take about 11 hours.
The public proceeding was scheduled for 10 hours, but began with a hold of 20 minutes. The organizers explained that the reason for the hold was a long queue in the office of passes to the Sejm.
The discussion includes the Life and household Foundation, the Center for Initiatives for Life and Family, the Institute for Legal Culture Ordo Iuris, the Proelio Group Foundation, the Association of Friends of Human Life, the Catholic Association of laboratory Diagnosts, the Catholic Association of Polish Doctors, the Foundation of tiny Feet, the Evangelium Vitae Foundation and the Polish Association of Human Life Defenders.
According to the president of the Commission, Dorothy Loboda, the proceeding may take respective hours. Each organization has 4 minutes to express its position, while individuals who talk individually receive 2 minutes for their speech.
"I ask you to calm down your emotions, due to the fact that sometimes emotions are not a good companion to a good conversation," she said at the beginning of the public proceeding of projects concerning abortions of Deputy Marshal Monika Wielichowska (KO). After welcoming the participants, Wielichowska stressed that the public proceeding was an crucial aspect of the direct engagement of the public in the legislative process and expressed her hope for a substantive discussion.
Kaja Godek of the Life and household Foundation, the first to talk at a public proceeding on the draft abortion laws, noted that the judgement of the Constitutional Court on abortion was not a decision of respective judges, but the realization of the postulate of a million Poles who supported the initiative “Stop abortion”.
During the public hearing, Godek initiated 3 proposals: the permanent inclusion of life defenders in the committee's work, the consultation of 5 experts in constitutional law on the compatibility of projects with the constitution and the detailed financial implications for the implementation of these projects to the public.
Anna Tomaszewska of the Action of Democracy, speaking during a public proceeding in the Sejm, stated that after 31 years of ban, she demands the restoration of the right to abortion. She noted that no parliament had always heard women say: “Abortion is simply a common experience. According to research, 1 in 3 Polish women had an abortion. We request power to make a law liable and responsive to the real needs of society, 1 that does not condemn a pregnant individual to the hazard of failure of wellness and life or to intellectual suffering, which does not exacerbate social inequality and does not exclude, for socio-economic reasons, respect for the decision of individuals in matters of individual life and their families," said Anna Tomaszewska, who took the level on behalf of the Action of Democracy.
Katarzyna Elżbieta Lubiecka-Rożyło, acting on behalf of the Lower Silesian Women's legislature Association, stressed: “The control of the individual over his own body is the basis of democracy. Its deficiency is the basis of totalitarian regimes. States have their own interests in this control. It's us women, native workers, soldiers, and that's why we inactive gotta fight for our own reproductive rights. When, with whom, where and whether we want to have children at all.”
Anna Kurkowska from the Polish Association of Independent Doctors and Scientists drew attention to a photograph depicting the kid at 12 weeks of age. In her speech, she powerfully opposed plans to limit the protection of unborn children and legalize abortion until the fetus is 12 weeks old. She indicated that in the 3rd period of pregnancy, erstwhile the kid is 12 weeks old, it weighs about 15 grams and reaches a dimension of about 6 centimeters. She described that at this phase of improvement the kid has already developed interior organs, and the image shows his face, nose, eyelids and ears. She stressed that it was responding to external stimuli through increasingly coordinated movements. Her words showed the defenselessness of this human being and the request to defend it.
“In the prenatal period, a tiny man develops most intensively. Killing a kid during this period is simply a violation of the law and the Constitution of Poland, whose Articles 30 and 38 supply legal protection for all human life. This is not our agreement and we request that these laws be withdrawn from the legislative process" - appealed Anna Kurkowska.
During a public proceeding in the Sejm about abortion projects, there was a fewer minute break. "Hey, hey, hey, abortion's OK," the abortion supporters shouted, and then they left the room. "Murderers," replied the pro-lifters.
The president of the Dorota Loboda committee ordered a fewer minutes' break. After her proceeding was resumed. A group of supporters of liberalisation of abortion law left the room.
“We will not talk and negociate the conditions of our health, life, whether we can decide ourselves with people who hatred us,” Natalia Broniarczyk from Abortive Dream squad told PAP. “We go out to aid abortions, not talk to people who want to kill us. (...) My body, my life is not the subject of debate," she added. "They promised us legalization of abortion, not a 12-hour debate on whether my friend could decide himself," she stressed.
During the proceeding in the Sejm, Magdalena Guziak Nowak, representing the Polish Association for the Defence of Human Life, took the floor. She expressed outrage at the proposals of political parties that let abortion even to be given birth, seeing this as a gross violation of the basic principles and the Constitution: “I am pregnant at 23 weeks. My kid can't pass a driver's licence exam, choose the president or take the level today. But at the same time Polish law allows for e.g. to save it a inheritance. And most importantly, he gives him the right to live. In what large contrast are the ideas of the Left, the Civic Coalition and the 3rd Way to kill children, in any situations until childbirth.
Therefore, as secretary of the board of the PSOŻC, but above all as a woman, wife and parent I appeal here, in the Polish Sejm, to respect the Constitution. Each of the projects under discussion proposes a public breach of the Basic Law, mainly Article 38. These laws will not gain the support of president Andrzej Duda. They are so calculated to make further social unrest, which is highly unwise in the current global situation.
Secondly, I appeal for listening to Poles. And Poles, ladies and gentlemen, do not want abortion on request. According to CBOS research, it is supported by 39% of Poles. The Left doesn't want a referendum on this due to the fact that she knows she's gonna lose it. 39% of citizens are a screaming minority, but inactive a minority. We don't want to pay for abortion from our taxes. Polish mothers do not want to rise their hands on their unborn children. On the contrary, we request that we treat them with respect, like tiny patients, and do not ignore the advancement of medicine, especially perinatology, which already in the womb can reconstruct their health, besides in Poland, conducting treatment of the fetus at a global level" - stressed Magdalena Guziak-Nowak, manager for Education of the Polish Association of Defenders of Human Life.
Marta and Andrzej Witeccy, a married couple for 27 years, and the parents of six children, decided to come to the proceeding with their boy Simon, who was born with the Down syndrome. Additionally, they are besides foster parents to Jacob, who besides has Down syndrome. Unfortunately, he could not come present due to the fact that in 2 months he would only turn 18 years old: “He has been with us for 17 years, we gave him life, he has been saved in an extraordinary way before abortion, he has received a home, a family, he is very grateful for it,” said Marta Witecka, and she added, “The replacement of abortion, the solution, is adoption. There are solutions for women. I met quite a few families whose doctors told uninvented stories about what would happen.”
At the end of the family’s speech, Simon Witecki, with Down syndrome, expressed his feelings: “I am Simon Witecki. I'm happy to be alive. I love my parents, I love my dad and my mom.”
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Source: PAP, sejm.gov.pl
