What does LIFE look like 2 years after TK's sentence?

Last October, the second anniversary of the Constitutional Court's ruling announced that abortion due to the illness of an unborn kid was incompatible with the constitution. There has undoubtedly been a large change in the life of Poles, as 9 out of 10 abortions per year were performed just for eugenical reasons. Despite the triumph of protecting the conceived life, an ethical question arises. Does the state support families who have chosen to rise a disabled kid and what the Poles themselves think about changes?In 2020, 1076 abortions were performed in Polish hospitals. By 2021 there were only 107 of them. There's been a ten-fold reduction. However, the ban on eugenics itself does not close the subject, there is inactive a lot to do, especially in helping parents with children with disabilities and women at hazard of pregnancy. The Constitutional Court in its judgement not only prohibited abortion, but ordered the provision of systemic support for pregnant women and people with disabilities.

What support does the state offer?

The presence of disabled people in the household importantly increases the hazard of poverty. By GUS data, the hazard of comparative poorness for a household with at least 1 disabled individual is 16.8%. In families without disabilities, this hazard is much little - 10.8%. Disability is the second most common origin of social assistance.

In 2017, the Act on the support of pregnant women and families "For Life" entered into force. Its primary nonsubjective is to support pregnant women with complications and children who have been diagnosed with irreversible disability or incurable life-threatening illness. It provides, among others, the right to pay care benefits, precedence in access to specialists and assigns a household assistant. Since October 22, 2020, this programme has become even more important, with the judgement of the Constitutional Tribunal expanding its number of beneficiaries.

The Life Behind Act introduced many innovative ideas - including the creation of 13 women's milk banks - in 2020 more than 4,000 children were fed milk from the milk bank. It besides importantly improved the availability for diagnosis and prenatal therapy to pregnant women with an increased hazard of congenital malformations.

It's not so pink.

Although “Behind life” is the biggest aid strategy for women and children with disabilities so far, as well as introducing many ideas into the life of previously unheard of in Poland, it suffers from many pains. Report of the ultimate Chamber of Control revealed irregularities in the implementation of the programme, many forms of support are not available to circumstantial voivodships. It was not possible to introduce many previously loudly announced ideas or to implement them in a incomplete way. Among another things, no planned database and portal on support forms for possible beneficiaries has been established, which is 1 of the reasons for the low interest in any forms of aid.

Perinatal hospices have not been financed and disseminated, which are not available in much of the country. In 1/4 voivodships, there is not a single facility with a signed contract with the NFZ, so parents cannot with dignity say goodbye to a terminally sick child. Construction and another medical buildings were neglected:

1. The Life Behind Programme provided for the creation of 30 co-ordinated childcare centres, which were created only 6.
2. The rehabilitation-coordinating-care centres were to operate in each district, with the planned 380 in the country scale being created by the end of the 307, so in more than 70 districts they were not created at all.
3. The Central Centre for Rehabilitation, Coordination and Care was not created.
4. Nor has the request for housing and homes providing peculiar protection and decent surviving conditions for families with disabled children been full met. Currently, only 10% of all planned premises are suitable for people with peculiar needs.

Similarly, it is with the preparation of the function of a household assistant who has not become a supporting link. According to the assumptions, specified an assistant was tasked with helping to settle all formal matters related to the program, rehabilitation, etc. It turned out that in the pomad 200 municipalities in the country there is no access to a single assistant, and in 66% of cases only 1 assistant mostly is available.

Of the planned 31 actions, 27 were implemented, but many were only partially or substantially modified. However, deficiency of adequate aid is not an argument to take anyone's life. Social issues for mothers and families with disabled people simply request to be developed in the future to give them a decent life, even if it were short.

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Non-involvement by the liable party

None of the bodies liable for coordinating the programme has performed its duties in a reliable manner. In particular, the Ministry of household and Social Policy and the Ministry of Health, which did not execute any part of their duties at all, resulting in incomplete reports for the years 2017 to 2019, in addition to being submitted late to the Prime Minister. The planned budget of the programme provided for by the Act of 2017 amounted to over PLN 3 million, but out of 11 actions from the programme only 50% of planned funds were utilized and in the case of 4 the amount did not exceed 10%.

The blame lies besides with the hospitals themselves, which did not supply adequate protection and intellectual assistance to patients in hard maternity situations.

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Half of the hospitals controlled by NIK were not organised legally and did not supply patients with an intimate feeling. any treatment rooms were not protected from entry bystanders, and the gynaecological chair was not shielded.

In 14% of the hospitals checked, patients who had had a dead kid aborted or had a baby were in 1 area with women who were pregnant or half pregnant after the birth of a healthy child. In 1 hospital, post-partum patients were hospitalized in the hallway. no of the hospitals inspected had a separate area where the parent could say goodbye to her dead child, usually had to do so in the area where she was born.

Such a level of negligence can worsen already so bad intellectual condition of the mother, who in addition to bad, had no intellectual assistance provided - in the 3 hospitals inspected, no specified advice was given. The deficiency of permanent intellectual care for patients experiencing maternity failures was the most frequently identified problem by provincial consultants in the field of obstetrics and gynaecology.

Help from the Church

The situation is not as bad as it might have been had it not been for the support of the Catholic Church, which, contrary to left-wing propaganda, does not concern only the destiny of “feds”. The Catholic Church conducts in Poland for children and mothers:

Poles do not think that abortion is “something good”

In the media, false information can be found many times, that Polish society is favorable for abortion. Changes in social sentiment after the Constitutional Court's ruling were specifically fueled by liberal media to make social antagonisms and their own narrative. In fact, since 2010, support for abortion on request among Poles has remained at the level of less than 18% and is considerably lower than in 2007, or in the 1990s.

Source: CBOS

Other CBOS study It measures moral support for abortion. Average rating on a scale of 1-7, on which 1 means that abortion is always bad and can never be justified, and 7 – that there is nothing incorrect with abortion and can always be justified.

As you can see, abortion in Poland has always been seen as a negative phenomenon. After the judgement of the Constitutional Tribunal, with respect to mass propaganda, there was a slight increase, but the overall consequence falls within the scope of deficiency of justification for abortion.

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However, the most interesting survey is the United Surveys for DGP and RMF FM from October last year. It turns out that after 2 years of violent abortion disputes, support for liberal solutions has fallen very clearly.

Source: journalist.pl