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...damages after doctors refused to grant her permission to terminate her pregnancy despite serious risk to her eyesight. Tysiac, who suffers from severe myopia, became pregnant for the third time in 2000. Three doctors told her she could go blind if she gave birth but, contravening Polish law, refused to write her a certificate that would authorize an abortion. After giving birth, Tysiac's eyesight has worsened to the extent that she cannot see objects more than five feet away. She now receives a monthly disability pension equivalent to 140 euros...
...Responding to the decision, some 3,000 Polish men and women waving national white-and-red flags and chanting prayers gathered on Wednesday around the 19th century St. Aleksander Church, a few hundred yards from the Polish Sejm, or parliament, in downtown Warsaw to demand that the government toughen its abortion laws. "A nation that kills its children won't survive!" read one banner, quoting the late Polish pontiff John Paul II. "Poland cannot kill its babies!" declared another. "Let the unborn see our Homeland." Not far away, in Constitution Square, a Stalinist cluster of 1950s social realism architecture, about...
...Conservative groups such as the ultra-nationalist League of Polish Families, a partner in the governing coalition, have sharply criticized the ruling and called on the government to appeal the E.U. judgment. Education Minister Roman Giertych, the League's leader, angrily denounced the European court, saying it had virtually declared that "a human right is a right to kill." His wife added that a woman who has an abortion should be punished with a life imprisonment. Nevertheless, the health minister Zbigniew Religa said that most likely Poland will not appeal the ruling...
...Women's rights groups assert that, as it is, Polish women are unable to exercise their right for an abortion even when they qualify for it under the existing strict law. Speaking at a pro-choice rally Wednesday, Tysiac said the existing abortion rules legitimize injustice and harm the poor. "When one has money, she can easily get an abortion illegally. But what about people like me? Nobody cares," said Tysiac. Unsanctioned abortions may number 80,000 to 200,000 annually, according to estimates by women's rights groups. Only about a hundred abortions - within the letter...
...Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art. "Wack!" which was curated by Cornelia Butler, starts with a bang. It's called Abakan Red, a coarsely woven, more or less circular bolt of red cloth. Suspended from the ceiling almost to the floor, it was made in 1969 by the great Polish sculptor Magdalena Abakanowicz, an early adopter of "humble" women's crafts like weaving as high-art techniques. She also understood how abstract images could be adjusted until they hinted again at something human. So the quasi-vaginal slit that runs the length of her piece shifts it from the realm...