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Title: Clear and compelling evidence: the Polish Tribunal on Abortion Rights.
Author: Francoise Girard
Publication: Reproductive Health Matters (Refereed)
Date: May 1, 2002
Publisher: Reproductive Health Matters
Volume: 10 Issue: 19 Page: 22(9)Distributed by Thompson Gale
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Francoise Girard (a), Wanda Nowicks (b)
Abstract On 25 July 2001 the Polish Federation for Women and Family Planning organised a Tribunal on Abortion Rights in Warsaw, to publicise the negative consequences of the criminalisation of abortion in Poland. A panel of Polish and foreign experts heard the testimonials of seven Polish women's experiences under the 1993 "Anti-Abortion Act". Only two of the seven women were able to tell their stories in person. One died in 2001, at the age of 21, of an unsafe abortion. One is legally blind after having carried her last pregnancy to term. One is in prison for infanticide, which in all likelihood was committed by her boyfriend. National and foreign journalists were...
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