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30 to 40 thousand abortions by Polish girls in foreign countries [142]
Polish feminists claim that 30 to 40 thousand Polish girls leave the country every year to have an abortion, mostly in the U.K but also in Germany, The Netherlands, Czech rep.
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In Poland, the number of illegal abortions and the associated "tourist destination" in order to remove the pregnancy. It is estimated that every year in Poland is made from 80 thousand to 200 thousand abortions, of which 10-15 percent of Polish women perform surgery in clinics in Europe. Such information is found at the conference dedicated to the parliamentary question of abortion - the issue arouses great controversy in Poland.
The conference was also attended by guests from the countries to which Polish women go to terminate their pregnancies. They claimed that their female patients are mostly women at the age of 1916-1948 years. It is generally a person educated and Affluent consumers - the safe and legal procedures in private clinics in Europe can afford only a richer Pole. Abortion costs there for 280 euro (Netherlands) even up to 1.2 thousand. pounds (UK). The average rate - 400 euros - is still lower than the price of illegal treatment in Poland, which ranges from 5 to 10 thousand. zł.
For international clinics they go to both women who have the right to legal abortion in the country because of their fetus is defective, for example, a genetic disease. They are afraid of stigmatization, however, often have difficulty finding a doctor who would undertake the surgery. Dr. Olga Loeber the Dutch clinic Mildred Rutgers Huis presented a case of deaf 20-year-old Polish, who already has one child and is afraid that it will cope with the next, and the 22-year old rape victim. To this clinic come from 80 to 100 Polish citizens of each year.
The specific situation in the UK, where private clinics are very expensive. Polka perform there, the treatment free of charge - within the insurance that replaced each with a work permit.
Abortion in Poland is possible only in three circumstances: when pregnancy threatens the life or health of women when the fetus is damaged, where pregnancy is the result of a crime. In practice, legal abortions performed in Poland, just a few hundred a year, he often denied the right to treatment.
During the conference, the Sejm demonstrated only a dozen abortion opponents, holding placards with a photograph of Hitler and bloody pictures of fetuses.
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