A proposed bill banning abortion in Poland presented a fresh challenge for women's rights activists there: how to protest in the time of coronavirus
She didn't have a destination as she passed through Warsaw's mostly deserted streets, but, just before noon last Tuesday, she got a text with directions: go to Rondo Dmowskiego.
— Marta Górczyńska April 14, 2020 But the abortion bill is part of a wider problem, according to campaigners and academics who say that Poland's ruling nationalist Law and Justice party is using the pandemic to continue chipping away at democracy and tightening its grip on power."What's happening now is the next stage in the destruction of our new democratic state," Anna Materska-Sosnowska, a political scientist at Warsaw University, told CNN.
— Stefan Simanowitz April 14, 2020 Justyna Wydrzynska, an activist with Aborcyjny Dream Team, a charity that helps Polish women with access to abortions, says their hotline, which normally receives around 10 calls a day, started ringing off the hook after the government announced border closures to stop the spread of the virus.
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