What a piece of shit doctor
I hope she can sue the doctor for the "suicidal" part.
Welcome to Poland
There was a really good podcast about how they had to sneak abortion pills into Ukraine, and the scariest part of the whole deal was getting it through Poland.
They took me to the emergency department at the hospital. While I sat in a corner crying, the doctors there told the police that they could look after me and that they could leave.
This wasn’t what they wanted to hear. They took me to another hospital with a gynaecological department, where more police were waiting for me. All this time they never said a word about what I was supposed to have done wrong.
The doctors at the second hospital seemed intimidated by the police. They were told to take my blood and give me a vaginal exam. My consent didn’t seem to matter. The doctor who was examining me let me know he didn’t want to get involved. “I do not care about any of this,” he told me.
After the examination, the police got more aggressive. Female officers took me to a gynaecologist’s office and the doctor left me. They told me to strip naked but I refused to take off my knickers. They made me squat and cough in front of them. Why would they do this but to frighten and humiliate me?
They threatened me with a cavity search. With my back to the wall, crying and naked except for my knickers, I felt like a hunted animal. I screamed at them, “What do you even want from me?”
Inhuman
Just so we're all on the same page:
THIS HAPPENED IN JULY.
Just in case anyone wants to pin the blame on the new government.
The controversy is theoretically still ongoing for this case, but on the down low, as just one part of the backlash against the restrictions put on abortions in Poland 3 years ago.
I have a lot to say about my psychologist, none of it fit for print, but suffice to say I trusted her completely and she violated that trust and our confidentiality.
Fuck it. Share it anyways. This psychologist is a piece of shit, and the fact that they weren't named in the article is bullshit.
Psychologist should get publically shamed to hell and back. Even if Poland doesn't have client confidentiality (and that's a big if), she still has basic ethics of her profession to uphold. Hope the courts of Poland throw this one out.
Usual psychiatry ethics allows for reporting to the cops IF someone has said they're planning harm to themselves or others.
Kind of sounds like the psychiatrist played around with that in order to report.
Hopefully they lose their license over it but I won't hold my breath.
played around with that
*lied
Yeah, betrayal can go both ways. Save others from this bologna.
This is coming to the US.
They keep getting slapped down every time they try.
i hope their new government will turn this around. i stand with this woman.
this is what you get when conservatives are in power.
I hope so too, but - from the article:
In my country, many women didn’t know they could not be criminalised for their abortions. Abortion laws kill women. Politicians talked about changing our laws in the run-up to the election. It became a bargaining chip. Now that they’re about to form a government, they have become silent on this issue.
Biggest issue is these stupid abortion laws exist.
Because Poland is backwards
Not all of Poland tho. PIS(S) did get ~10% less votes last election, so it's getting better.
They're still in first place.
wouldnt use the word backwards here, it implies its unfixable
so this person was swatted by their psychologist. the psychologist called the police and lied to get this person raided. that's swatting.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
I’ve been involved in LGBTQ+ and pro-choice activism in Poland for years, I know my rights and knew I wasn’t breaking the law.
One night, two weeks after I’d taken the pills, I was at home when suddenly there was a loud banging on my front door and shouts of “police!”.
Later, the recording of her conversation with the police was leaked to the press, where she can be heard telling them that I’d had an abortion and was suicidal, though I specifically told her I wasn’t.
Nude pictures I had published as part of my work as a performance artist were circulated on the internet to say I was a deviant and a satanist.
The title of my latest photography series is “Pani Joanna from Kraków … [fill in the blank]”.
I paid a steep price for speaking out, but I gained a platform, from which I could loudly refuse to consent to the intimidation tactics of the authorities.
The original article contains 1,051 words, the summary contains 160 words. Saved 85%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!
This one's not a good summary, OP's text box was better.
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