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...annually, according to estimates by women's rights groups. Only about a hundred abortions - within the letter of the law - are being carried out every year in Poland since the introduction of the legislation. "Women seeking help in public hospitals are being treated like beggars," said Kazimiera Szczuka, a feminist activist. "The case of Alicja is not the only...
...controlled by the ruling party, with sweeping powers to probe serving officials and even private citizens. It re-opened an investigation into former (and still popular) President Aleksander Kwasniewski. Meanwhile, Poland's conservative press has declared a small culture war on "liberal" groups including gays, artists and feminists. Example: Kazimiera Szczuka, 39, a literary-talk-show host and prominent feminist, recently made gentle fun of a girl who leads prayers on Radio Maryja by imitating her reedy, childlike voice on a satirical TV show. The girl is disabled, though Szczuka was unaware of this fact. A column in the radio...
Former prime minister of Lithuania Kazimiera Prunskiene lead her country from 1990 to 1991, as it sought independence from the former Soviet Union...
Inside the legislative chamber, however, the republic's leadership was anything but solid. The troop arrivals coincided with the republic's worst internal political crisis since Vilnius declared its independence last March. Prime Minister Kazimiera Prunskiene's government resigned after the parliament voted to rescind hefty food-price increases imposed just a day before. The economic reform drew outraged protests from Lithuania's Russians. Prunskiene, , a moderate widely admired for her ability to cool tensions with Moscow, also came under fire from ardent Lithuanian nationalists who consider her too soft on the Kremlin. The result, as liberals...
...rarefied levels of real political power, three women in particular have emerged who may set the pattern for others to follow: Marju Lauristin, the deputy speaker of the Estonian parliament; Lithuanian Prime Minister Kazimiera Prunskiene; and Sabine Bergmann-Pohl, parliamentary president of East Germany until the recent union of the two Germanys. Between them, Lauristin and Prunskiene have managed to place the Baltic struggle for independence high on the world's political agenda...