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Funfact: AboTak! is a play of word - ***Abo*** is short for "abortion", ***Tak*** means "yes", together it will be translated as "just because". [Abortion Without Borders](https://abortion.eu/) and [Abortion Dream Team](https://adt.pl/en/) - the biggest abortion providers network in Poland and Europe opens their own clinic. But it's fully funded by individual donations, so abortionists ask you for support. **Any, even the smallest, donation will be a huge help!** If you can organize some kind of fundraiser, like event/auction or anything else, please contact with AboTak via email kontakt@abotak.org > The more they try to ban abortion, the more we expose it to the sun. That's why WE OPEN THE FIRST STATIONARY ABORTION CLINIC IN POLAND! WE ARE OPENING AN ABOTAK CLINIC IN WARSAW! > We call ourselves the Abortion Dream Team, and for years we have been doing much more than the Polish state to expand access to abortion in our country. Eight months have passed since the change of power, and legal abortion or even abortion guidelines from the Ministry of Health are still not in sight. That's why we're not waiting idly for a change, and we're opening a space that will set standards and identify good practices of abortion care, put pressure on the government to introduce appropriate laws, and on doctors to learn how to do surgical abortions in accordance with WHO guidelines. It will also be a space where you can find our colorful sweatshirts and t-shirts, as well as works by Polish female artists and books in the climate of the ABOTAK clinic! But in order for this miracle on the Vistula to come to fruition, we need cash! > Contribute to our fundraising for the premises and become an ambassador of ABOTAK clinic! > You can read more about us on our website: https://abotak.org/en/
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Kobiety w Sieci's disclaimer: Thank you for reminding it! The government not only keep current law. They also shall publish recommendations for courts and medics. Health Ministry shared document focused on law, not even including instructions of contemporary, safe medical procedures. Polish doctors use old, dangerous methods, don't know how to dose drugs for medical abortion or run vaccum aspiration, sometimes even do c-section - not even an abortion method. This guides are contrary to WHO's recommendations. Health department do not call doctors to learn new standards, used in other countries for decades. Do not urge madical schools to include abortion into syllabus. Medics who can't help in abortions can't provide good care after natural miscarriages. Ministry of Health chosen the most harmful for women, interpretation of law. It's exactly the same as the previous government's one. Polish abortion and reproductive health organisations, including Abortion Without Borders (the biggest network providing abortion in europe), prepared new guidelines, based on WHO's and FiGO's recommendations. In Polish! Ready to implement! Ministry of Health got this document from us and IGNORED IT. In Poland help in an abortion is criminalised, so every woman can be treated as the witness of a crime. Police is overeager, often don't know the law and operates against women and their loved ones well-being and safety. We have exaples of searching the cesspools, because women miscarriage!!! At the same time general procurator reminds they can commandeer women's phones and computers- witness'! The biggest party, theoretically declaring support for abortion legalisation, in reality is ultra conservative and missed opportunity to change the standards as permitted by applicable law. We do what we can, but we need also the international pressure on government. We deeply appreciate if any media can share our point of view, as real abortion providers in Poland (we do as many abortions in 4 days, as all Polish hospitals in a year!). Thank you❣️
www.politico.eu
*(partial) decriminalising Also what Kosiniak said in Polsat News is a manipulation, in CEBOS research abortion is not a last priority
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cross-postowane z: https://szmer.info/post/3452186 > >The nascent Orka movement has gained access to the president after vowing to toss the EU’s Green Deal “in the trash”. >
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cross-postowane z: https://feddit.de/post/11834910 > Bugging devices were found in a room where Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk was scheduled to meet with his Cabinet on Tuesday, an official said. > > The Cabinet ministers were meeting in Katowice, a southwestern Polish city where Tusk was attending an economic conference. > > Jacek Dobrzyński, the spokesperson for the head of Poland’s secret services, said a routine security check uncovered equipment that could be used for recording or eavesdropping. > > He wrote on social media on Tuesday morning that “the State Protection Service, in cooperation with the Internal Security Agency, detected and dismantled devices that could be used for eavesdropping in the room where the meeting of the Council of Ministers is to be held today in Katowice.” > > “The services are conducting further activities in this matter,” he added. > > The Cabinet traditionally holds a weekly meeting in Warsaw but exceptionally held it in Katowice due to the European Economic Congress taking place there, at which European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen delivered a speech. > > Tusk and the government ministers went to Katowice on Tuesday morning by train.
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Some context: he was about to be prosecuted for leading a hater group supporting the last (PiS) administration by attacking neutral and opposition aligned judges (often based on illegal sources). Then, after being outed, he snitched on the group itself, causing major issues for the faction of the ex-ruling party which controlled the ministry of justice (and most of the court system). So he was either going to be legally persecuted or 'taken care of' by his own ex-friends, and might have been pushed to a jurisdiction which will not cooperate with Polish authorities. Common joke is that "there he'll be granted anything he wants for the rest of his life". [Last Polish soldier-defector 'hang himself' after 4 months](https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emil_Czeczko), and a propaganda tour, in Belarus.
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cross-postowane z: https://szmer.info/post/2923611 > Filipino migrant workers in European country allege wage theft, salary deductions and passport confiscation.
>After eight years of government under the far-right nationalist Law and Justice party, Polish voters turned up in record numbers in a historic October election that heralded a new, liberal government under the leadership of Prime Minister Donald Tusk. > >After being sworn-in in December, Tusk's new government immediately moved to retake the state-funded TVP. Under Law and Justice, the broadcaster had been transformed into a far-right propaganda machine, jeopardizing European Union funding to the country for violating the EU's democracy standards.
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cross-postowane z: https://kbin.social/m/technology@lemmy.world/t/700741 > > > > > > In one of the coolest and more outrageous repair stories in quite some time, three white-hat hackers helped a regional rail company in southwest Poland unbrick a train that had been artificially rendered inoperable by the train’s manufacturer after an independent maintenance company worked on it. The train’s manufacturer is now threatening to sue the hackers who were hired by the independent repair company to fix it. > > > > > > > > > > > After breaking trains simply because an independent repair shop had worked on them, NEWAG is now demanding that trains fixed by hackers be removed from service. > > > >
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i see there is a note and this community is for info also in oder languages not only in english about pl
cross-postowane z: https://lemm.ee/post/10210648 > Polish minister apologises for falsely accusing Ukraine of not inviting Poland to defence forum > OCT 3, 2023 > > Poland and Ukraine have clashed over the absence of Polish defence firms from an industry forum in Kyiv at the weekend. The Polish state assets minsiter eventually apologised after realising he had falsely accused Ukraine of not inviting Poland. > > Meanwhile, the Polish foreign minister skipped a meeting of his EU counterparts in Kyiv yesterday, saying that the decision was due to a current “downturn” in relations with Ukraine. > > Though Poland has been a close ally of Ukraine since Russia’s invasion last year, the two countries are currently embroiled in a dispute over Ukrainian grain exports, which Warsaw has unilaterally banned. > > Yesterday, the majority of the EU’s foreign ministers gathered in Kyiv for their first ever summit in a country outside the EU itself. They agreed a €5 billion package of additional military aid for Ukraine. > > However, Poland was among a small number of countries that did not send its foreign minister, Zbigniew Rau, with one of his deputies attending instead. > > “My absence from the meeting of EU foreign ministers in Kyiv is partly an expression of the fact that, when it comes to relations between Poland and Ukraine, we are entering a period of decline,” Rau told Polsat News. > > “I wouldn’t call it retaliation,” he added, emphasising that Poland still has “common strategic interests with Ukraine”. However, when it comes to “national interests we have divergent interests and misunderstandings regarding the transit of Ukrainian grain through Poland”. > > Rau’s remarks yesterday followed a war of words with Ukraine over a defence industry meeting last weekend in Kyiv. While firms from over 30 countries were present, there was no representative from Poland. > > “Shame on you, Mr Zelensky,” tweeted Krzysztof Lipiec, an MP from Poland’s ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party. “Where is Poland? This is how Ukraine thanks Poland?” > > In an interview with Radio Zet yesterday, Poland’s minister for state assets Jacek Sasin said that “PGZ [Poland’s state defence holding firm] as a company was not invited”. He added that “we have been dealing with a series of unfriendly gestures from Ukraine recently”. > > “I am afraid that this is a matter of current political interest on the part of the Ukrainian authorities, who believe that when an [election] campaign is underway in Poland, it is better to side with Germany and to play for a change of government in Poland,” said Sasin.”This will have a negative impact on Ukraine.” > > However, that version of events was disputed by Ukraine’s ambassador to Poland, Vasyl Zvarych, who told broadcaster TVN that “Poland was among the first to be invited to this event” and its absence is “a question for the Polish side”. > > Shortly after, Sasin issued a statement admitting that he had been wrong and that PGZ had, in fact, been invited to the forum in Kyiv. “I am sorry for the misunderstanding,” he wrote. > > Sasin added that PGZ “decided not to attend due to the circumstances described below” and shared a statement from the firm. However, the statement did not provide any reason for PGZ’s decision not to attend the forum and instead talked about the firm’s existing good relations with Ukraine. > > The government’s conflict with Kyiv has drawn criticism from the opposition, who have accused it of harming Poland’s relations with Ukraine in order to benefit the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party’s current campaign for parliamentary elections that will take place on 15 October. > > “Poland as a country is currently paying the cost of an election campaign in which PiS subordinates the issues of national defence and relations with Ukraine to its own political benefits,” said Czesław Mroczek, an opposition MP and deputy head of the parliamentary defence committee. > > “If Poland excludes itself from the group of countries and companies that will participate in the rebuilding of Ukraine, that will cause terrible harm to the interests and economy of our country,” Mroczek told industry news service Defence24.