Hundreds of women attended a 'black protest' in Warsaw, Poland, on October 23 2016, in front of Poland's parliament, the Sejm. The protest was organized as a way to present the demands of striking women to Poland's parliament. Among the demands were access to be better sexual education for young women, as well as calls to liberalize Poland's restricted abortion laws. Sunday's demonstration can be seen as an extension of the massive protest that took place on October 3 2016, in Poland and across many other countries across the globe as a response to Poland's right wing government considering a
Hundreds of women attended a 'black protest' in Warsaw, Poland, on October 23 2016, in front of Poland's parliament, the Sejm. The protest was organized as a way to present the demands of striking women to Poland's parliament. Among the demands were access to be better sexual education for young women, as well as calls to liberalize Poland's restricted abortion laws. Sunday's demonstration can be seen as an extension of the massive protest that took place on October 3 2016, in Poland and across many other countries across the globe as a response to Poland's right wing government considering a total ban on abortion. The protests in early October were in response to a legislative proposition by the pro-life group in Poland that sought to completely outlaw abortion, even in the case of rape or incest, and wanted to potentially jail women for carrying out abortions. Though the proposition was defeated, Poland's right-wing government has hinted that they are still considering furthering restricting abortions, especially when it comes to aborting terminally ill or severely deformed fetuses. Sunday's protest in front of the Sejm in Warsaw comes on the eve of the 41st anniversary of the 1975 Icelandic women's strike. (Photo by Anna Ferensowicz / Pacific Press)
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