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Marynka11   
3 Jul 2011
News / Citizen-led Initiative on Abortion Law in Poland [50]

In my view abortion should be legal but also extremely rare.

Yes, that's my stance as well. It should be the last resort.

The thing is that there is too little energy going in educating kids in contraception and family planning. There is no social network for women who decide to raise a child on their own, and the very same people who prohibit abortion will ostracize a single mother. The hypocrisy is really depressing.
Marynka11   
2 Jul 2011
News / Citizen-led Initiative on Abortion Law in Poland [50]

I think you have some problems with reading comprehension. It's not about abortion in general, it's about extending the ban to the situations when

1. When the woman's life or health is endangered by the continuation of pregnancy,
2. When the pregnancy is a result of a criminal act, or
3. When the fetus is seriously malformed
Marynka11   
2 Jul 2011
News / Citizen-led Initiative on Abortion Law in Poland [50]

My opinion is that abortion is something serious and should only be considered a last resort, not an alternative to condoms.

That's exactly what I think. It looks though that an embryo has more political rights in Poland than women.
Marynka11   
2 Jul 2011
History / Polabia back to Slavs? [113]

Where they work I guess

They use more infrastructure in Germany though; schools, etc.

I'm wondering if they pay taxes to both. That wouldn't be fun.
Marynka11   
2 Jul 2011
History / Polabia back to Slavs? [113]

buy flats and houses on the German side of the border and
commute to work in Poland LOL (that is the case with thousands of Poles working in Szczecin but
living in the German town of Löcknitz, for example.)

Where do they pay taxes?
Marynka11   
30 Jun 2011
News / Citizen-led Initiative on Abortion Law in Poland [50]

What this 'citizen-led initiative' is about is religious obsessives and extremists wanting to impose their views on others.

What bothers me the most about is that Sejm would even consider voting on a ban that abuses citizens' rights.

Who cares about women's right to live. We need to save the fetus.

I read yesterday that some right-wing nut said about the 500 legal abortions: "we killed legally 10 buses of children". If he only had a few working brain cells to imagine the children on those buses; one third malformed and handicaped, one third will never meet their mother and some one third is loathed by their mother for being a result of a violent act. It doesn't look like these buses were going to a picnic.
Marynka11   
30 Jun 2011
News / Citizen-led Initiative on Abortion Law in Poland [50]

What I'm asking is where your information is coming from

I didn't quote any stats. and how do I know underground exists? When I lived in Poland, right after the ban on abortion was introduced, there were tons of ads in every newspaper of that sort: "Trips to Austria. Excellent medical services for women". That's how I know the underground exists.

The 500 I mentioned are the abortions that were conducted as a result of the three conditions where abortion is not banned..
Marynka11   
30 Jun 2011
News / Citizen-led Initiative on Abortion Law in Poland [50]

Yes, they are. But according to the initiative, all abortions would be prohibited. And this thing has 600 000 signatures.

Unlikely: too many people make to much money from the abortion ban being in place.

There were only 500 official abortions in Poland for the three reasons I named in the thread. I don't think this ban is likely to influence the cash flow in the underground.
Marynka11   
30 Jun 2011
News / Citizen-led Initiative on Abortion Law in Poland [50]

I like this Polish law. I think when a woman screws around and gets pregnant, she should be responsible for her actions.

It's not about women being responsible for their actions. It's about forcing women to keep malformed children, children conceived in rape and keeping pregnancies that endanger their life.
Marynka11   
30 Jun 2011
News / Citizen-led Initiative on Abortion Law in Poland [50]

I was reading today in GW, that Poland is planning to change the abortion law. As of now the abortion is banned except for one of the following situations: 1. When the woman's life or health is endangered by the continuation of pregnancy,

2. When the pregnancy is a result of a criminal act, or
3. When the fetus is seriously malformed

According to this article (which is in Polish, but states what I summarize in here) there is a citizen-led initiative (projekt obywatelski) that was filed in Sejm in April that would would ban abortion altogether. The initiators of the projects managed to collect 600,000 signatures. I don't know if this project would be voted on, and if so when.

Abortion from my perspective is a very grey area. Yes, a woman should have the right to decide about her life, but on the other hand it's the beginning of a human life. I'm not going into the details whether I'm for or against the current status quo on abortion.

But would you vote for or against the "Project obywatelski" if you were a Sejm deputy?

I would vote against it. To me it's just total compromising the rights of a real citizen in the name of a hypothetical one. On cases like that the choice should be left to the person who will have to deal with the difficult consequences her whole life.

Do you think there is a chance the Sejm will vote in favor of this initiative?
Marynka11   
29 Jun 2011
Life / Homosexuality in Polish Culture [231]

that means, unless the town M was talking about had a population of 100, there had to be more than 1 gay person.

Did I ever say, there is one gay person? That's the one gay person I know. Getting to know as many gay people as possible wasn't on my priorities list when I was living there. Honestly, up to this day I don't care if someone is gay, or not. It's their business.
Marynka11   
29 Jun 2011
Life / Homosexuality in Polish Culture [231]

blah blah blah, my point is: give me an example of something that would demonstrate how Poland is a tolerant country towards gays. That's all I'm asking for. I don't need your family story with that.

Jesus Christ and Oprah, it's like a Merry-Go-Around with you. That's the one example I know.

Another example:
13 years ago I had a lesbian friend visiting from Germany. I took her to a bar where supposedly gays met. Honestly, I couldn't tell who was gay and who wasn't. There were no people with outstanding bruises and scratches on their faces. Nobody threw rotten eggs at the bar. We had beer and we headed home and nobody was throwing stones at us (and no, we didn't kiss, I'm straight).
Marynka11   
29 Jun 2011
Life / Homosexuality in Polish Culture [231]

if Poland is anything like the rest of the world, and everyone here gets their pitchforks ready if one dares to say otherwise

You wouldn't want me, who has never been to Texas to say, the whole state is inhabited by a bunch of airheads shooting their guns wherever they can?

My point is get some knowledge about the country before bashing it. I said, I don't know how gay people are treated in Poland, and don't ask me if you want to know.
Marynka11   
29 Jun 2011
Life / Homosexuality in Polish Culture [231]

Yup you're right i totally missed your point proving it beyond any doubt that people in Poland are tolerant towards gays.

My point was that before you start bashing a country, you should have some knowledge about it. I can't prove your point wrong for following reasons:

I only visit Poland once a year. I've left there 12 years ago.
My family lives in a small town. I only know that the people treat the one gay guy who lives there fairly, and he even organized a pilgrimage to Czestochowa that my mother took a week ago.

Again, people who live in Poland should tell on this forum how gays are treated there these days.
Marynka11   
29 Jun 2011
Life / Homosexuality in Polish Culture [231]

That's the perspective of the majority of Polish people living in Poland now.

No offense, but neither you or me (or Bzi for that matter) have the best idea what the majority people in Poland think these days.
Marynka11   
29 Jun 2011
Life / Homosexuality in Polish Culture [231]

The word on the street is that the safest way to be gay in Poland is to become a priest.
Marynka11   
28 Jun 2011
News / Wal-Mart coming to Poland? [146]

Another big picture from a small town: there is a strip mall in my town with Walmart, and Sam's Club and a lot of vacancies. Over the 10 years I've been living there in the same mall quite a few stores went out of business. Linens and Things, Pet Smart, Dollar Store, Circuit City to name a few. If even the mid size specialized chains can't keep up the competition, then nobody can. At some point you will just have Walmarts all over America. There will be no other place to take your money.
Marynka11   
28 Jun 2011
News / Wal-Mart coming to Poland? [146]

I'll go you one further. For a while, one of the first McDonalds in Poznan was a date restaurant (including candles on the tables).

After all it's an ethnic restaurant in Poland :)
Marynka11   
28 Jun 2011
News / Wal-Mart coming to Poland? [146]

Exactly, if you are not happy at Walmart, vote against it: don't go there. I go to Wegman's for example, because I hear that the workers, even part-timers get benefits, and as you just said, they know their stuff. I might be spending some $5 more a week, but it's well worth it when you know that the store as employer adheres to certain standards.
Marynka11   
28 Jun 2011
Life / Homosexuality in Polish Culture [231]

Pol3 most if not all religions are based on fear not love thats why the Prince of Peace needs Hell.

No, I think you are getting it wrong. Most religions are based on love. Hell is really handy for the churches to scare people into submission and donations.
Marynka11   
28 Jun 2011
Life / Homosexuality in Polish Culture [231]

If your brother (meaning fellow-man) acts improperly, call him to order. If he ignores you, bring along a witness to your admonition. And if he still proves incorrigible, then you may disown him.

Ok, Polonius, and who decides what improperly means?
Marynka11   
28 Jun 2011
Po polsku / Polska jest dyktaturą? [129]

Chyba, że jesteśmy sociologami 'badającymi' rzetelne zjawiska współeczne na internecie pod względem swojego doświadczenia 'życiowego'.

Masz na mysli 'socjologow', dla ktorych punktem honoru jest posiadanie 1000 friends na Facebooku?

:)
Marynka11   
28 Jun 2011
Po polsku / Polska jest dyktaturą? [129]

Carmen Hermosillo, a West Coast geek and early adopter of online chatrooms, in 1994 argued that:

Chyba ten rok sie nie zgadza, bo w 1994 nikt nie slyszal o Facebooku.

It's like Stalin's socialist realism.

Socjalizm realistyczny to byla jedna i jedyna oferta na rynku. Odrzucenie nie wchodzilo w gre, bo byl czescia zycia. Namtomiast my mamy prawo nie zalogowac sie do Facebooka i nie uzywac Twittera.
Marynka11   
28 Jun 2011
Life / Homosexuality in Polish Culture [231]

Jesus, Jesus and Jesus.

Deductive reasoning is not always right. Jesus said that a man should take one women. Christians assumed that a man mustn't take a man then. However, Jesus said in his most important commandment to love one another as he loved us. So if anyone claims they live by Jesus' word, they would just let the homosexuals be. The thing is, the homophobes use the religion for their hate arguments, and hurt both, the issues at hand and the religion.
Marynka11   
27 Jun 2011
Life / Homosexuality in Polish Culture [231]

I don’t think there is anything wrong with two men kissing in public.

The interesting thing is that most men who are bothered by two men kissing in public wouldn't be bothered by two women kissing in public.