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Ukrainian refugees in Poland need access to abortion

Women who fled to Poland to escape the war in Ukrainemust have access to reproductive rights that meet international standards, including abortion. This was stated today by a high-ranking official of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) against the background of reports of rape and sexual violence in Ukraine, BGNES reported.

Poland some of Europe’s most restrictive abortion laws, and human rights activists have expressed concern about the difficulties Ukraine’s rape victims fleeing the country may face if they have to terminate their pregnancies, Reuters reported.


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“There are specific policies (regarding reproductive services in Poland) that we believe do not meet international standards,” Assistant High Commissioner for Protection Gillian Trigs told a briefing.

“Victims of sexual violence need counseling and help. In some cases, they will need an abortion. We will raise this issue … with the government,” she said.

UNHCR will work with those who need an abortion to make sure they get one in Poland or elsewhere, the international official added.

The United Nations says human rights observers are trying to verify allegations of sexual violence by Russian forces, including gang rapes and child rapes, as well as allegations that Ukrainian forces and civil protection militias have also sexually assaulted violence.

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Abortion has become a divisive issue in Poland since the nationalist Law and Justice Party (PiS) came to power in 2015, promising a return to a traditional, pious society combined with generous state aid.

In 2020, the Constitutional Court ruled that abortion with fetal defects was unconstitutional, eliminating the most commonly used case of legal abortion in a predominantly Catholic country.

Termination of pregnancy is now allowed only in cases of rape and incest, as well as when the life or health of the mother is endangered, but access to abortions is limited because many doctors refuse to perform them for religious reasons and many women have abortions abroad. .

The number of refugees arriving in Poland since the beginning of the Russian invasion has exceeded 3.3 million.

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