Access to abortions needed for Ukrainian
refugees in Poland, UNHCR says
Posted By: FormerDem, 5/13/2022 1:34:08 PM
WARSAW - Women who have fled to Poland to escape war must have access to reproductive rights that meet international standards, including abortions, a top UNHCR official said on Friday, amid reports of rape and sexual violence in Ukraine. Poland has some of the most restrictive abortion laws in Europe, and human rights activists have raised concerns about the difficulties victims of rape from Ukraine fleeing to the country may face if they need to terminate a pregnancy. CORRECTIONS*
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No to baby killing. And if the UNHCR goes on trying to make the Ukraine war plus United Nations into a legal mechanism for legalizing babykiling, I am going to stop caring about that war, because there are more babies at risk than Ukrainians, and their deaths are more torturous. Can't the UN stop leveraging every global objective for their hateful babykilling cruel torturous racist agenda that most people oppose?