75 reasons why a referendum on abortion is simply a bad idea

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Why is simply a referendum a bad idea?

We have serious concerns about the thought of a referendum on abortion and we present them below:

1. The only binding ‘abortion reference’ is the affirmative pregnancy test carried out by the persons concerned.
2. A crucial number of legal experts recognise the right to abortion as a human right, and there is simply a hazard that a referendum will violate the principles of democracy.
3. The anticipation of abortion is simply a question of carnal autonomy, which can be taken from those in request of abortion as a consequence of the referendum.
4. The general public cannot decide on the issue of the individual's carnal autonomy.
5. The right to abortion is simply a substance of life and wellness – and only that should be the focus of interest, a referendum is simply a distraction from this fundamental issue.
6. Referendum is (still) giving work to another European Union countries for providing medical care to Poles.

7. Referendum is to shed work for women dying in hospitals, from politicians to society. To make women feel safe, going to the hospital, we request to decriminalize abortion, liberalise the law and change the attitudes of doctors alternatively than a referendum.
8. Access to abortion is access to wellness protection, or human right. There's nothing to vote on.
9. A referendum vote on the right to abortion would be a vote on the right to freedom from torture and inhuman treatment and on the right to physical and intellectual health.
10. A referendum on abortion is simply a dangerous political tool to manipulate public opinion and reduce the attention paid to the availability of abortion.
11. Referendum in Poland is not an institution to pass laws, so the task has to go the full parliamentary way anyway. And here the President's power is veto, which is actually passing the bill to the Sejm with a motivated motion to reconsider.
12. The prerogative of the president of the Republic of Poland with Article 144(3)(6) of the Constitution of the Republic of Poland (which gives grounds for signing or refusing to sign the Act) is not limited by a referendum.
13. The referendum does not exclude the President's powers to mention the bill to the Constitutional Court.
14. In the Polish legal order, the referendum is simply adding another phase to the process of amending the Act, not choosing another, possibly faster path.
15. No referendum is needed to change abortion law in Poland. Prohibition of abortion is statutory and only amending the bill is required to lift it.
16. The result of the referendum does not mean an easy legislative way for a given bill.
17. Abortion referendum is simply a last hotel erstwhile there is an obstacle to the bill. We do not think that there are differences in perception of the abortion of the 3rd Way chairmen.

18. According to research, it is mainly the oppressors opt to hold a referendum.
19. The referendum will strengthen the belief that abortion is simply a world-view matter, not the experience of millions of Poles.
20. Only 18% of those who have the chance to participate in the referendum are women of reproductive age.
21. Referendum will discriminate against girls aged 15-17 who will not have the right to participate in it, even though the vote will apply to them themselves.
22. Voting on abortion in a referendum strengthens the belief that another people have the right to decide about our bodies.
23. Abortion referendum is an examination of the opinions of random people, not individual experiences.
24. Men will vote in a referendum on women's rights, which violates women's/pregnancy rights to self-determination.
25. KO and Left promised voters abortion by Week 12 and did not mention a referendum. Carrying out the referendum is the realization of the electoral promise of the 3rd Way only, not the full ruling coalition.
26. The referendum is not in the coalition agreement.
27. The 3rd Way electorate mostly supports the liberalisation of abortion. Why, then, do Simon Holovnia and Władysław Kosiniak Kamysz refuse to perceive to him? is simply a referendum a smokescreen for their views on abortion and taking responsibility?
28. Only 24 percent of the 3rd Way electorate supports the thought of a referendum.
29. The 3rd Road has not mostly declared that, after the affirmative result of the referendum, the full of PSL and Poland 2050 will support the Law on Legal Abortion until the 12th week of pregnancy in the Sejm, there is no binding work in this case, and it is only those Members and Members who are brake changes after the 15th October elections.

30. Poland 2050 and PSL justify the request for a referendum with the false presumption that there is simply a fundamental dispute in Polish society about legalization of abortion. Meanwhile, polls over the last 2 years show that the vast majority of Polish society supports legal abortion. Therefore, a referendum as a public opinion poll is unnecessary.
31. As the experience of Polish public abortion debates has taught to date, the arguments utilized in referendum campaigns are likely to take the subjectivity of women, putting the fetus at the heart of the debate.
32. This is why we choose politicians and politicians in the general election to represent us and accept good law, in accordance with reality, technological cognition and public expectations.
33. The thought of the referendum was written by president of the 3rd Dear Simon Holovnia, who utilized this procedure as a kind of cover-up before empathizing with his anti-abortion views.
34. Referendum does not solve the question of the conscience clause.
35. The referendum does not respond to the most crucial postulate of women's and doctors' communities, i.e. decriminalisation of abortion (removement of Article 152 k.k.).
36. The referendum is simply a immense expenditure of PLN 72 million from public funds. This will be the most costly public opinion poll in democratic Poland.
37. The cost of the referendum is simply a cost akin to that of the enveloped elections, which has been and is widely contested, and on which the committee of enquiry is presently working.
38. If the proposal for a referendum is due to the fact that Simon Holovnia and Władysław Kosiniak-Kamish want to learn something about abortion, pro-abortion organisations are ready to share their cognition and experience in this area. This is simply a cheaper and more effective way out than a referendum.
39. It is not certain that 50% of those entitled to vote will be required in the referendum.
40. The most crucial referendum, which has been successful in Poland, is the referendum on joining the European Union. It afraid society as a full and was known to be a essential condition for joining the EU community.
41. The referendum on EU accession was carried out after the Catholic Church, in exchange for the promise of deficiency of liberalisation of abortion law, supported and started agitation for Poland's accession to the EU. Since the Church has a clear position on abortion, it would be unfair if specified aggitation were to happen again on their part.

42. Abortion referendum in Poland is an thought as irresponsible as it is in the Brexit case. The British decided to break up with the European Union, and on the second day, they asked Google quite a few questions about what it is and what it is. Before the referendum there was no education and reliable data on the effect of the referendum. The British could no longer retreat their decision.
43. The institution of a referendum in specified a expression was compromised by a referendum on 15 October 2023. This event showed how easy politicians can manipulate and tend to formulate questions and make a lying message in public media about the referendum. There was no debate, there was demagoguery.
44. Polish society is not attached to the thought of a referendum. For 5 referendums held in the III Republic, 4 did not scope 50 percent attendance.
45. Even with the binding result of the referendum, there is no warrant erstwhile and how the demands will be met.
46. The key function will be the formulation of referendum questions, which can become a tool of manipulation.
47. In the Polish political reality, it is impossible to make a universal mention question.
48. One of the ideas for a referendal question is that it besides proposes further tightening of abortion law. However, this utmost view is expressed by a very tiny percent of the population.
49. There's no telling who's gonna put a referendum question. fresh reports show that the question will be invented by Szymon Hołownia alternatively than the civic panel, as he had previously announced.
50. The Simon Holowna organization represents the Minister for civilian Society (VP of the party) in the government, who would be liable for holding a referendum, cooperating with NGOs and civilian panels, as well as financing these areas. Agnieszka Buczyńska, on the another hand, is, like Simon Hołownia, an overt opponent of abortion on demand.

51. Referendum is not a warrant of change. The president can veto the legal abortion bill even after the referendum. There is no law requiring the president to sign the bill resulting from the referendum.
52. The 3rd Way, pushing forward the thought of a referendum, undermines the function of the Sejm as a typical democracy body and elections as a celebration of democracy, claiming that the adoption of the bill by the Sejm would be “imposed by politicians”. And the Marshal of the Sejm does it!
53. Nearly 75% of people in Poland took part in the last elections, so there is so much support for the kind of indirect typical democracy. There is only 16 percent of society in favour of a referendum, that is, direct democracy.
54. 64 percent of the voters/dos of the 3rd Way support laws liberalising the right to abortion by Week 12. TD promised in the run to perceive to citizens/drugs and not even perceive to her own electorate.
55. Pursuant to Article 125 of the Constitution, a referendum shall be held on matters of peculiar interest to the State. Abortion is an individual's experience, not a substance of state weight.
56. It takes time to deal with the referendum, which can be utilized to improve access for those in request of abortion, for example to educate doctors who are incapable to execute abortion.
57. The thought of giving the right to decide on abortion to a society that has been judged by anti-abortion communicative (according to which the fetus is granted more subjectivity than those who are pregnant) for over 30 years is unjust. Polish society has no reliable cognition based on facts, many people base their beliefs on clickbaits, fake news and propaganda content.
58. Members have tools (working in parliamentary committees, public hearings, parliamentary teams, meetings with women's organisations) to decide on the basis of data, facts and research. This anticipation is not available to society. Unfortunately, these tools are not utilized by the 3rd Way. Szymon Hołownia did not agree to a individual gathering with #proabo organizations.
59. Based on the experience of erstwhile campaigns, we can conclude that the run will be full of slander, fake news, perpetuating stereotypes, stigmas and prejudices about abortion.

60. The main argument of the anti-abortion website is the mythical post-abortion syndrome, which according to modern intellectual cognition does not be – investigation shows that the most common feeling after abortion is relief.
61. The referendum will lie the abortion reality – at this point in Poland, about 100 people all day interrupt pregnancy with pills (Mifepriston and Misoprostol) at home. This is simply a safe and recommended method of abortion by WHO. The tablets can be ordered from womenhelp.org. Support is provided by infoline #abortionfree tel. 222 922 597 and abortion activists and NGOs.
62. The most likely form of the referendum run would consequence in harm, stigmatisation and objectification of people with experience of abortion. Even 1⁄3 Poles had at least 1 abortion.
63. Polish children will be exposed to the run vulnerability of bloody and gruesome photographs and content in the public space, from which anti-abortion pickets are known, e.g. the Kai Godek Foundation. Those utilizing public space will be forced to contact highly drastic content, in addition to lying and incompatible with the current state of knowledge.
64. Referendal campaigns will lead to a deepening of polarization and a quarrel between Poles and Poles. Society does not request to settle a dispute that is not there, it needs access to legal and safe abortion.
65. Anti-abortion organizations with immense money, headed by Ordo Iuris, will launch a massive propaganda campaign. There will be a disinformation run of the century.
66. Proabo activists, who execute most of the work voluntarily, after hours, alternatively of focusing on giving circumstantial people access to abortion, will be drawn into an uneven fight in which the another side will not hesitate to apply the grip below the belt.

Referendum in Ireland – facts:

67. Politicians and policymakers who, for example, mention to the Irish referendum on abortion ignore systemic differences.
68. The ban on abortion in Ireland was introduced at the level of the Constitution and could only be abolished by referendum.
69. The referendum in Ireland afraid the entry in the Constitution, not human rights.

70. The referendum did not concern circumstantial changes to the law, but simply the deletion of the Constitution's provisions, which prevented liberalisation of abortion legislation.
71. The eighth amendment to the Constitution in Ireland compared the life of a pregnant individual with the life of a fetus. Removing it was the only possible way to change, and under Irish law it could only be done by referendum.
72. However, the referendum did NOT ask whether abortion should be allowed and to what extent. The question was, "Are you in favour of the 8th Amendment to the Constitution being deleted?"
73. The thought for the 3rd Way abortion referendum is purely an opinion. In Ireland, before voting on the removal of 8 amendments to the Constitution, the text of the Act liberalising abortion law was known if the result of the referendum was positive.
74. An intensive information run started six years before the referendum, in which the Irish and Irish decided that an article would be removed from the Constitution to prevent relaxation.
75. General preparation for the referendum in Ireland lasted respective years. erstwhile women die in Polish hospitals, erstwhile the prosecutors pump out the cesspool, due to the fact that they fishy abortion, or the police put women at home for that slogan, do we have time for debate, lasting respective or respective years?

In view of the above arguments, we anticipate Donald Tusk, as president of the Civic Platform, to take immediate action and to declare his club not to support the abortion referendum.

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