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Mom Wins Suit For Being Called Nazi Over Abortion
The single mother who won a suit against the Polish government’s ban on abortion has gained her second success: a Catholic newspaper will have to pay her for equating her attempts to have her pregnancy terminated with murder and the Nazi regime.
Alicja Tysiac was already a mother of two in 2000 when she became pregnant again. Eye doctors advised against carrying the pregnancy to term because she was likely to lose her vision, but doctors refused the terminate the pregnancy.
Abortion is illegal in Poland unless the health of the mother or unborn child is at risk. Which is why Tysiac won her first suit, brought to the European Court of Human Rights. They said she should have been granted the abortion of therapeutic grounds. Instead, she gave birth and later suffered the feared retinal hemmorhage which has severely diminished her sight and may still cause her to go blind.
When news came out about her suit, Tysiac quickly became a target in her homeland. A Roman Catholic magazine, in particular, published an attack on her, calling her a killer and equating her wish for an abortion with Nazi crimes.
That, a judge said this week, was too far. They have the right to make clear their moral disapproval of abortion, but not vilify an individual, the judge said.
Tysiac is a single mother who now has virtually no vision. Say what you want about the rights of a fetus, but now there are three kids with a mom with diminished capacity to care for her kids. It’s hard to fault a mother for trying to take care of her kids.
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Rosana commented on Sep 24 09 at 3:32 pmShe might not be a Nazi but she was trying to kill an innocent person anyway. If she was so worried about her vision she should have prevented the pregnancy all together.
mumus commented on Sep 24 09 at 4:02 pmI wonder, Rosana, what kind of birth control is available in a country, like Poland, which takes such a ruthless stance on reproductive rights.
jenny tries too hard commented on Sep 24 09 at 6:41 pmI don’t think it is moral or right to call someone a Nazi. Still cases like this make me grateful for the First Ammendment.
Spartic commented on Sep 26 09 at 8:11 pmRosana is a complete idiot! No woman should ever have to chose between her sight and a baby. Now she won’t be able to care for any of her kids, great job conservatives. Now lets take away all her benefits and health care!
mystic_eye commented on Feb 10 10 at 10:34 pmI think the state should have to pay for her “child support” until her kids would no longer be getting it (whatever is the norm there)
I think that they people that called her a nazi should have to spend 5,000 hours volunteering with nazi death camp survivors.
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