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sections about mental health. mental illnesses occurs more, you know, it's a demon possession 77 percent in 60 minutes. on the w. i just got his, his thoughts. they were great. you ah, a woman is buried here in the cemetery of the southern polish community of pish, gena. she only lived to the age of 30. ah, isabella's mother was of swindle not over isabella died because the doctors didn't
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help us cookies at one long and because of our emotional and poland was stubborn. ah, but about us global as the deceased woman's sister in law, she rarely comes to ease as grave. as the anger and grief overwhelmed her. she little she'd got it all. we have to carry this heavy burden and learn to live without isa is la maya butcher schools bully and we have to support her daughter my ancestors. i found it hard to talk about my feelings, because i know what little my as going through it isa. to raise or she says as the mice because she lost her mother my out to her labor. we started
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he's a died much like 6 other women in a similar situation who were also in danger of losing their lives as a goal for you could my brother, gregory, and the whole family blame not only the doctors, but politicians to pull the quizzes in and that was, they are the ones who tightened the abortion lol to function is. we're still waiting for just tell us, but if you pushed to is dumber that's ease as house out there. she lived here on the corner. don't place them over tonight or one. how could a healthy young, pregnant woman like isa die so suddenly ah,
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isabella sideboard was a hair dresser. she was always changing her hair color and hairstyles for fun. mm. due to complications in the 22nd week of her pregnancy, isa was admitted to this hospital and pushed jenna is as what she what she had a lot is i went to the hospital on september 20th 2021 or showed me to she died the next morning at 7 o'clock, lost them couldn't go via, but alo, after either was admitted to the hospital, doctors found the fetus was severely deformed and there was no amniotic fluid. isa already had an infection caused by the fetus. yet the doctors did nothing. poland strict law prohibits terminations even on fetuses which are non viable. these are sent messages to her husband from her hospital bed. it does these other messages
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which i have to wait until the features, his heart stops beating thanks to the peace government. there is no other way why, maybe they will do something if they have to save my life. it's terrible that they have such regulations. so my o these as infection led to sepsis, which caused her deaf warsaw mid january 2023, a crowd outside. the court house is waiting for a woman who has been on trial for months for assisting an abortion duty. doctor, once he's a facility, 3 years in the socialist, poland, we could decide on our own fatality. ideally, we had a portion of it, but we also gave birth to children. i'm not sure how pregnancy can endanger a woman's life. it's not just a step backwards. now everything is getting downhill here. now with houston
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a vision sca has become a symbolic figure in poland, an activist who fights for the unrestricted right to abortion, and helps pregnant women and need. she could be imprisoned for up to 3 years for sending a woman an abortion pill. there is solidarity both in poland and abroad. i'm here is up with us on a day to with justina because them has been hearing from people from the drain, refugees living in poland and who are basically coming here and been realizing that they cannot access and abortion. and they need, once in poems, today could be the day of the verdict for justina for that is jessica. it's the deciding phase of the landmark case. ah, the staff members of abortion, dream team support justina the founder of the organization. the
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little on that the customer i've, i'm nervous like i am every time it's very stressful that it today i heard from one of the female politicians here that it will be more like a marathon than a sprint. unfortunately, proteins allow me to michigan. i might have thought, i hope my strength will last a little longer. you stick with the trial and the related protests are being followed from far beyond poland. borders. with what is that it is a political trial against an activist who sent an abortion pill to a woman who needed help. uh huh. yes. then a vision sca has been helping women to obtain abortions for 17 years. so far she is avoided trouble with a legal system, as she simply gave pregnant women advice on ordering abortion pills abroad. but during the pandemic, she shipped the medication herself. legally, a crucial difference. she was reported by the partner of the pregnant woman who
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used the abortion pill. ustinov at the regents got sent, he will be heard as a witness to day i'll just wait on. the pregnant woman contacted euston. a vision sca because she was in an abusive relationship and the abortion pill from abroad did not arrive during the pandemic. for use then a visit a jessica. this was an emergency. did she know what she was risking when she sent the pill? it's our lum. i new metal shop. i've been working in the field for years. i know abortion law. i would be lying if i said i didn't know the risk i was taking. well, i mean, i knew it very well. not the math, but in that situation, i just had to send her the abortion pills. it wasn't that there was no other hey and this was to ship it out. mm hm. oh, since the abortion law was further strengthened in 2020,
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there have been mass protests in poland. a legal termination is only possible if the pregnant woman has been rate or her life is in danger. according to polls, 70 per cent of polish people are against the stricter law. but there is also approval for the strict law. we visit the large pool we do family near woods ana pulido has 7 children with an 8th on the way. she is very religious and says she would never have an abortion even if her life or endanger of what was there for talking with was that she loves, as selfishness should and stuff as from having children to non usually chalk each new life costs us some about an energy hog the good, you need to have as carriage to lose a part of your life and gain new life. and that will be as this guys,
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ah, ana po, be, do, takes care of her children full time and also home schools, them together with her husband. the couple have set up a catholic foundation to promote homeschooling, ana advises other families and gives workshops. oh mother, along with the child benefit they receive around $110.00 euros per child per month . the family has enough to live on once a year, the children are tested by a state school ana and her husband can not imagine a better life for their large family. ah, oh hey little and let them whatever it was for us. it's very important that the family is always together, you know, like in the holy family where mary was the teacher of jesus and he grew up in his
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father's ken. it's like always such his parents who went to educate their children . well zoom noticed that public schools take something away from them. for instance, the influence they want to have only children my own legit she ana probably do is currently preparing one of her workshops for pregnant women, which she holds in catholic communities around which they are steeped in the strict catholic values by which she and her family live this is those of it's a funny and glum shine. we women have to take a back seat and well that is our destiny as mother his mother. nature has created as to games and protect ly hibachi from brazil had anya at the moment a woman decides to have an abortion. they must be a huge drama in her heart. j headphone she the controversial than drama. but evil will always be punished on that false. the evil here is the killing of another human being
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a tor vehicle i for on a potent do having an abortion is like running a child over in the street. good back to the trial of activist houston ever did a jessica in warsaw. further witnesses are being questioned. jakob swanny of ski is in the court room as an observer. he is a member of the ultra conservative lawyers association, or do you, reese, which aims to further restrict the abortion law. his association is well connected to the polish government the hearing ends with no verdict for euston of a division. sca and a new appointment is fixed. yang if it had fun, eubanks, we haven't, i mean no more exhausted than before. in fact, i'd say that i've regained
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a little energy. i'm glad things are moving forward. i'm sure the club ah, with 222922597, call us there are still abortion pills and terminations available abroad. the activists shout into the crowd. ah. 7 the anti abortion protesters are also demonstrating in front of the court house by playing the sound of a baby crying over the loudspeakers. oh, good people, jak whom swanny of sky of ordo juris leaves the courtroom without giving an
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interview. he later invites us into his law firm as a representative of the public interest, or do you rece is allowed to participate in the trial. the christian fundamentalists have few supporters and society, but are well connected to the ministry of justice. order you rece is fighting to assign the legal status of a patient to a fetus. number on the front of me because of the patasha ability for sir, you know, review when it comes to abortion access, the legalization is much better in poland than in many other countries, especially european once a month. however, we still have some objections and we are trying to extend the protection of unworn life in different ways. good uncle was closing elfin alicia or something or do you read has prepared a report for the court pointing out that e you law does not actually accept abortion. friendship
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promoted. the term facilitating an abortion can mean many things as it was in the form. it could be assistance with a surgical termination of liquid or it could be handing over an abortion pill on the one issue, whether the pill is delivered by mail or handed over personally eligible either way enables the termination of a pregnancy that of, of lucas of me back to you in a video, jessica. the 49 year old lives in a small town near warsaw and has 3 children divorce, actually as i'm not sure if i'm on a subway in warsaw and a young woman suddenly approaches me and asks him justina. let me hug garcia. being recognized on the street is new for me. it's not us to use then a bid. the reasons can never wanted to become famous. the fact that she is a full time activist today has to do with her own story that torsion. wagner, my a lot, see it all started. when i had an abortion in 2006,
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i think initial. com less you be at that time. i was completely on my own as about 2 hours of pockets, new thing financing. it was hard to get any information and then at the, for example, how to take the abortion housing of ya young. that's cool. that's like there were many different sellers. lot of the little honey and everyone recommended a different dosage. it's all, it's i didn't the england of co, vanya, she terminated her pregnancy at the time because her husband was abusive. she has no regrets, why i want to have one on the bottom of she, abortion was a turning point in my life. the script understood as it was an experienced that allowed me to regain my self determination and my body is at 2 am. i started to see myself completely differently as a woman. shortly afterwards, euston of the visions gave up her job as a chemist and founded the abortion dream team. back at the hospital and piss jenna bought about us grow bowl is suing the doctors
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who were treating her sister in law isa. when she died in the hospital, he's got an infection and had a fever of 40 degrees. oh mama. oh goodness, i'll de la glare. very angry at the doctors as we see it if they didn't help isa to wish to hear, they'd have nothing at all. which cost either her light fixture dallas facility and they are still working here in this hospital if walked zulu, they were briefly suspended, but now they are back and working. hes not done. it's like a mockery for us. it makes a mockery of our tragedy. payneham, the snow shade for good but but us global is still waiting for an answer as to why the doctors behaved the way they did. the prosecutor's office is only just filing the indictment. at this point,
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the trial has not yet begun. the hospital refuses to comment on the case in front of our camera. they release a written statement due to the political context of this case. we do not give interviews at a public hearing on abortion in poland at the european parliament in brussels. but about us global reported on her sister in law's death. we handle that excel ease of it and then to brussels, to tell them about the situation. my family is in order to tell them what influence the legislation has undocked his decisions and patience lives with us on shelter. she, i believe this is something that should be openly talked about about how much suffering the tightened bullshit. lewis inflicting on women of diction. jacoby it lawyer yolanda buds of sca writes a blog, giving information about medical errors during childbirth,
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abortion she is representing ease of family and another family with a similar case sister in law. families lawyer shed. she too, was present at the public hearing in the european parliament and brussels. she said phone doctors weight off the scope for treating her some kenya, obama reactions of the m. e p. 's were very moving. who also you could see that isa story, as well as the situation of polish women in general, touched the parliamentarians very much out of the portal. sheila urged every school . or else we reported how easy was treated in the hospital, you know, and how she died. there got yahoo! it made it very clear what damage laws can do to people about the yuk dot ovation. we are the chief as a lawyer, yolanda knows what a predicament the strict or abortion law puts doctors in. more and more women have been denied an abortion even if there were grounds for it. they are increasingly contacting yolanda over this when they swap some muslim female patients are the
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weakest link in this situation. usually near my years of that, doctors always decide what is legally the safest option for themselves. so they can avoid prosecution it without them. some federal, a multi and i don't know, but even with all the emotional blackmail interests and i can kind of understand the doctor's fucking though i represent the victims family, but i think him, but called on the bus he had that attend or not felt to the need to make a quick decision on the spot damage whether and when to perform an abortion to eat that us, that saddam such. ah, and then, yep, o'clock of convent on a povey do is preparing a workshop for pregnant women with her oldest daughter. and in co operation with the nuns, her courses are offered for pregnancies with complications. ah,
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is a chavez? i always look forward to these workshops. never attended by wonderful women from all over poland and even from abroad. who come here to celebrate life cheerfully to them that happy that they can be mothers smuggled, but they also come to cry over they wounds and they pain all that has been difficult for them with the choice in you boys myself. but if you smell walnut cove yet, so when the rome is carrying a life inside it, it is full of light tongue upon us. it is glowing because god is united with the little soul yakima. is there anything more beautiful than being pregnant? on i encourages the women to trust in god and pray if they are facing problems and fears
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she will be losing to day. i can proudly say that i am like an empress. isn't the good, not because i had a syrian, but because god has given me a new value and new dignity level goes. ah ah. some amount to 1000 the kids i had to diagnoses of difficult ectopic pregnancies, myself, emotion, schol. still in my heart, i felt that my life is not worth more than the life of the unborn child trustful that i trusted in god, and i am a life and he was a stature. a child should never be killed out of fear for the mother's life. because we are mothers, we bear life. we must not forget the hurt of its a fantasy that only external law monopoly day was 8th child is due in 4 months.
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and she can imagine having even more children with march 2023 in warsaw euston ivy that a jessica has more trial days coming up. well, never the less her work in the warsaw office of abortion dream team must go on ustinov. that agenda is in high demand. these days were ukrainian women are coming forward who were raped during the war and want to have an abortion. ready oh fact i process. yes. please go to the website. women health dot org dot org in not this there. you can order the abortion. hell. the black blue. oh
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well i had the dot org, roman had caught up. got oregon was off. charlotte, which a lot of it, it's the women who call me always want to tell me why they want the abortion this need to justify their wish comes from the stigma. see miss that. i mean, we want to ease things a bit for the women. i mean, and we say that even if it sounds harsh enough that we are not interested in the reason for the abortion me on a noun that us will provide the electrical image upset of ions, fastpitch. entre normally, abortion dream team also offer seminars for women, but there is no time for that at the moment. oh, it's march 14th. 2023 and the verdict is expected to day. you are not alone the crowd chance? yes, i any simply not guilty. if any state is to blame,
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the prosecutor presents new evidence against houston avidity shantika her appearance and the polish parliament when she appealed for more liberal access to abortion. in addition to the prosecutor, there was another observer from the ultraconservative lawyers association. or do you, reese? she requests of fine for use than ever, that is jenica, as well as a restriction on her movements. you sent over that agenda as defense attorney protects with the order you would use representative has severely overstep the mark. she is not a plaintiff in the law soto. therefore, she is in no way authorized to propose any penalties whether she may give her opinion on the case in general. but she is not allowed to propose any sentencing houston a visit to jessica herself, pleads not guilty. look after the break,
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the verdict is announced. justina visions, guy and her companions, have dressed up to celebrate the landmark case. it is, after all, a historic judgement for polish women. i see the defendant ustinov it was in scott is found guilty of assisting a pregnant woman in the termination of her pregnancy by sending her the abortion pel. use then a visitor. jessica is sentenced to 8 months of community service and of rated by the activists like a hero. oh lamb, you the dogs up, my daughter. who would i go and put us before me? the real verdict came much earlier after the court hearing in february, we received a letter from another, a, the woman i sent the pill to accident. she thanked me for helping her that in that
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doesn't that, that yeah. but the thing that tanya, yes, no hand, these are a bullshit, pales is going to be. what you stint i did is not a crime you. most of it's just them some thought, what is 1100 percent of people in poland? want me cannot be a crime. is it that book fair by? yes, the wow, you stand a vision sca says ironically that she already completed her 8 months of social work long ago. emphasizing that she will continue to help women in need of an abortion in the future. the day after the trial, the judge who passed the sentence was promoted. ah, nothing will stop this way. we are all like ah, yes, then every 3 chance guy is happy that the trial is finally over the cache them. it doesn't get them of us find this with my own experiences with an abusive partner kept coming up there. they were hard moments for me. the memories kept re emerging . now it's hard even years later to think about what i experienced with him. get
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back to long island yet. my biggest is that of the most are stressful, was the 1st day of the trial that us will now i'm exhausted. everything is boiling up in his, i mean yeah. is shadows. i don't, we're fear any more at the me. i'm not nervous any more. his thoughts that i am tired all. it was in the difficult time on your daughter and the what, what else 3 is to throw in a tough itala, bmw. you stand a vision's cause aisle but also ease as death. have moved the country very much. is us still young? ask us just the he's a from pish, turn out. lost her life in a polish hospital because of the doctors did nothing for 10 years. it's you have to pick that up for sky. they did not act to save her life. her. no, you look on the volley needs, needs o are you calling in for the doctors? it is more important to cover their box legally at venetia lunch. walterboro
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instead of say in the woman's life that unusual a brook roster or usually chicken age. mm. ease as family is left with only grief and anger, and a message inscribed on ease as gravestone. ah, there will be no more. mm. nauseous. don't you think we will never come to terms with us for which much we her life was taken away go to a woman who had a whole life ahead of her all her plans, all her dreams, which was august for plan of emotion. ah, ah
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