🧵 Abortion pills or a catheter?
A safe abortion or an unsafe abortion?
Life or death?
These are the choices facing women in Poland when seeking an abortion.
#JakJustyna
#IamJustyna
#MyChoice
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Left_EU/status/1651497979260420097
In this video Justyna tells Anja’s story.
Anja was in an abusive relationship. She had an unwanted pregnancy.
Dehydrated, starving & constantly vomiting Anja spent a week in hospital against her will. (2/6)
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Left_EU/status/1651498081580470272
Doctors were concerned about her physical & psychological state.
But no one asked if she wanted to be pregnant.
Desperate, Anja contacted the Abortion Dream Team.
Justyna sent her abortion pills, but when Anja’s partner found them he reported Justyna to the police. (3/6)
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Left_EU/status/1651498208818806784
The opportunity to have a safe abortion was taken from her.
Anja resorted to the “methods of our grandmothers.”
Scared & alone, she used a catheter to terminate the pregnancy. She bled heavily and developed sepsis.
Anja could have died. (4/6)
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Left_EU/status/1651498349738991616
"Justyna’s story shows us just how far backwards we have gone in denying sexual and reproductive rights and criminalising sisterhood," says @meugeniarpalop
Read the full story: https://left.eu/abortion-in-poland-women-forced-to-risk-their-lives/ (6/6)
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Left_EU/status/1651498959486025730
The work of advocates like Justyna is under threat.
For helping a woman in need, Justyna was sentenced to 8 months community service.
Abortion Without Borders & @aborcyjnydream provide a lifeline for women. They rely on donations & need support: https://abortion.eu/ (5/6)
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Left_EU/status/1651498760424284165