PiS preparing law on aid for women

The government is preparing a package for mothers who have been withdrawn from the right to abortion due to fetal defect by the judgment of the Constitutional Court, writes Gazeta Wyborcza daily. After the announcement, and then after the publication of the judgment of the Constitutional Court on abortion, protests took place in many Polish cities.

The daily writes that PiS MP Bartłomiej Wróblewski, who was the initiator of changes and tightening of the abortion law, together with the parliamentary team for life and family, are now postulating to "take care of the child with dignity and limit its suffering". 

What are their plans? "They want maternity hospitals with separate rooms for mothers with seriously ill newborns, as well as access to perinatal clinics and perinatal hospices", writes "Gazeta Wyborcza". 

"In addition, PLN 20,000 of a one-time benefit under the act for life "and PLN 1,500 per month for families raising disabled children. And care is to be treated as a job that gives the right to a retirement pension." the daily wrote.

"Today I handed over an important draft of solutions aimed at helping pregnant women whose children have serious defects; the project was received by, among others, PiS president Jarosław Kaczyński and Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki," said Michał Wójcik, the deputy head of Solidarity Poland. 

According to PAP, the project raises the issue of perinatal hospices, for which the party has been seeking support for several months.

On Wednesday after 23 in the Journal of Laws, the judgment of the Constitutional Tribunal of 22 October last year on anti-abortion provisions was published, and its written justification was published at night in Monitor Polski.

The justification shows, inter alia, that the probability of a severe and irreversible fetal impairment or an incurable disease that threatens its life is not sufficient for the permissibility of killing a human in the prenatal period, and the mere indication that a child may be burdened with defects is "eugenic".

After the publication of the judgment, the so-called the Anti-Abortion Act of 1993, authorizing abortion in the event of severe and irreversible impairment of the fetus or an incurable life-threatening disease.

("Gazeta Wyborcza", PAP)