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

  • Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
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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 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 Boyan Stanislavski
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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 Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
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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 Małgorzata Kulbaczewska-Figat
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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 Małgorzata Kulbaczewska-Figat
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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 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 Boyan Stanislavski
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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 Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
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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 Vladimir Mitev
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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...
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