New Abortion Rights Centre Sparks Controversy in Poland

Polish activists opened an abortion rights centre in Warsaw, challenging restrictive laws. Symbolically timed on International Women's Day, it offers a safe space for women to have abortions with pills. Despite protests, activists seek to destigmatise abortion and push for legal reform in this traditionally conservative nation.

In Warsaw, Polish abortion rights activists inaugurated a new centre opposite the parliament building, symbolically challenging the country's restrictive abortion laws on International Women's Day.

The opening of the centre sparked demonstrations, with anti-abortion protesters gathered outside while activists from the Abortion Dream Team stood firm, backed by private security and police barriers.

Activists claim this first stationary abortion centre in Poland provides a safer, supportive environment for women seeking abortions with pills, addressing the country's abortion taboo. Meanwhile, political landscape uncertainty hampers broader legislative change.

(With inputs from agencies.)