FEDERA’S ADVOCACY SUCCESSES:
The vice-president of FEDERA’s board of directors, Kamila Ferenc, an attorney, became a consultant to the Special Commission to consider draft laws on the right to abortion.
The first hospital in Poland was fined for refusing to perform a statutory abortion. In the pregnancy of a 41-year-old female patient, fetal abnormalities were detected, confirmed by prenatal tests. The patient had approached the Pabianice Medical Centre with a written request for an abortion prepared by FEDERA’s lawyer. The hospital refused to perform the abortion. This decision constituted a violation of the patient’s rights, as found by the Patient Ombudsman. The hospital was fined PLN 500,000. As reported by the Ministry of Health, two similar proceedings are currently underway.
Dr Maciej Socha has been appointed provincial consultant in gynaecology and obstetrics in Kujawsko-Pomorskie province. Dr Socha was officially endorsed by FEDERA when applying for this position
Moreover, FEDERA has taken its patronage of the publication ‘The Female Psychic. On the course of mental health disorders and their treatment in women’. The publication is a comprehensive study on the clinical picture of disorders occurring in women, as well as the impact of hormonal changes and chronic diseases in women.
SRHR NEWS:
A bill providing for the partial decriminalisation of abortion has been referred to the second reading in the Sejm. FEDERA actively sought its support among parliamentarians and participated in the work in the Special Committee.
