The opposition in Poland denounces the establishment of a "register for pregnancies" by government officials

On Monday, June 6, the opposition in Poland's Parliament denounced a government provision that obliges doctors to register pregnancies on a digital medical registry.

The opposition in Poland denounces the establishment of a "register for pregnancies" by government officials

On Monday, June 6, the opposition in Poland's Parliament denounced a government provision that obliges doctors to register pregnancies on a digital medical registry. This could be "a new tool for repression" against women in countries like Poland, where abortion is illegal.

An order by Adam Niedzielski the Minister of Health requires information about pregnancy to be included in this register along with information on previous or current illnesses, treatments, or blood types.

According to the ministry, this information will enable doctors to assist patients in Poland as well as abroad in other EU countries.

Opposing the register, Kamila Gasiuk -Pihowicz, Liberal MP, stated to the press that it was created "to persecute, control Polish women and to create a new instrument of repression control, political influence of State on our lives and on our families".

Experts and the opposition point out that, in addition to medical personnel, the prosecution controlled in this country by nationalist populists in control can obtain access to the digital register by the court of a judge. This is despite the fact that European authorities have noted several instances of violations of the law.

According to Katarzyna Lubnauer (MP), "slice by slice, women's reproductive right have been curtailed" for six years in Poland.

"First, you implement emergency contraception on prescription...then, in vitro fertilization cannot be funded by the state budget...then, this brutal verdict from the Constitutional Court" she stated, prohibiting abortion in October 2020 in the event that there is a serious malformation of a fetus.

A woman who has had an unplanned pregnancy is not subject to prosecution, except for the doctor who performed it and the people who assisted her.