abortion – The Barricade

We would give our lives for the unborn fetus, but we couldn’t care less for the already born child

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Gender issues
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Recent events in the US social and political arena seem to be taken right out of Margaret Atwood’s famous novel, A Handmaid’s Tale! A document leaked form the US Supreme Court revealed that its judges...

The European Parliament elects anti-abortion MEP as president

Jon Rodríguez Forrest
Democracy
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Two decades after the European Parliament had its last woman as a president, Roberta Metsola (EPP, Malta) has been elected to the position with an absolute majority of 458 votes in the first round. Metsola’s...

Polish Catholic fundamentalism has claimed another woman’s life

Boyan Stanislavski
Gender issues
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Another tragic victim of Poland's new anti-abortion laws died at the end of January 2021. Agnieszka died in the hospital as a result of twin pregnancy complications. Her life could have been saved if she...

Poland is a women’s hell following last year’s abortion ban

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Gender issues
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In this episode, Maria Cernat and Boyan Stanislavski will discuss the tragic death of a young Polish woman with a dying fetus who was denied abortion and died of septic shock. The public learned about...

Ailbhe Smyth: “We need a discussion about abortion on a pan-European scale, linked to a disc..

Małgorzata Kulbaczewska-Figat
Citizens Movements
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Ailbhe Smyth co-founded the Coalition to Repeal the 8th Amendment in 2013, a broad civil society platform to fight for the removal of the near-total ban on abortion inserted in the Irish Constitution in 1983. The Coalition went...

Victoria Tesoriero: ”The struggle for women’s rights is a struggle for social justice.”

Małgorzata Kulbaczewska-Figat
Citizens Movements
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Victoria Tesoriero was one of the leading activists of the National Campaign for the Right to Legal, Safe and Free Abortion (Campaña por el Derecho al Aborto Legal, Seguro y Gratuito). Launched in 2005, more...

Poland: Rage and fury after yet another fundamentalist excess

Boyan Stanislavski
Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe
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[caption id="attachment_2533" align="alignleft" width="169"] Protest in front of the Holy Cross church in Warsaw, the banner reads "no!", photo: Boyan Stanislavski[/caption] Since the shocking verdict of the Polish Constitutional Tribunal last Thursday, which resulted in...

The Polish war on women is over 30 years old

Boyan Stanislavski
Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe
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Poland has had one of the most draconian anti-abortion laws in Europe since 1993. On Thursday a constitutional court ruled that one of the three exceptions to the ban – cases of severe foetal impairment...

Dracula Politics – the Pathetic Fight with Imaginary Monsters

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
On the Barricades Special (Podcast)
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On September 27th local elections were held in Romania. Maria Cernat and Boyan Stanislavski discuss how cheap political theatre continues to displace serious political debate. The campaign before these elections was Romanian “politics” in a...

Democratic innovation leads to successful Irish referendum on legalisation of abortion

Vladimir Mitev
Gender issues
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A film by the Scottish journalist Patrick Chalmers describes the Citizens` Assembly of 99 Irish men and women who gathered at the end of 2016 in a hotel in Dublin... and brought about social change...

We would give our lives for the unborn fetus, but we couldn’t care less for the already born child

Polish Catholic fundamentalism has claimed another woman’s life

Poland is a women’s hell following last year’s abortion ban

Ailbhe Smyth: “We need a discussion about abortion on a pan-European scale, linked to a disc..

Victoria Tesoriero: ”The struggle for women’s rights is a struggle for social justice.”

Poland: Rage and fury after yet another fundamentalist excess

The Polish war on women is over 30 years old

Dracula Politics – the Pathetic Fight with Imaginary Monsters

Democratic innovation leads to successful Irish referendum on legalisation of abortion

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