‘Declare it to a doctor, and it’s over’: Ukrainian women face harsh reality of Poland’s abortion laws

Women turn to aid groups for help, with many unaware their rights to reproductive healthcare have vanished upon crossing the border. MsReads via guardian

, Myroslava Marchenko was a

“She called me and said, ‘Oh, my God, I don’t know what to do, because time is running out and my pregnancy is growing, but I don’t want to raise this child because it’s war, and I can’t manage it,’” Marchenko recalls. It was, she says, the first time that she understood the impact that Poland’s abortion laws, and the barriers that had been erected to prevent women accessing emergency contraception, could have on individual lives.

, according to the European Parliamentary Forum. Many doctors refuse to prescribe emergency contraception or even IUDs on ethical grounds, arguing that they are akin to an abortion.Photograph: Anna Liminowicz/The Guardian

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