In Poland, Testing Women for Abortion Drugs Is a Reality. It Could Happen Here. ( www.nytimes.com )

theragu40 , 10 months ago

Jesus christ. What is the public reaction to this in Poland?

This is horrifying, draconian, invasive, gross…on so many levels.

Imagine being a woman, going through a miscarriage, and then also needing to be tested like this to somehow prove the validity of this horrible thing that has befallen you. How humiliating and grotesque. Completely inhumane.

letmesleep , 10 months ago

It’s also a gross violation of medical privacy. Doctors who report any form of medical issues - regardless whether it’s a miscarriage or a bullet wound - should have to fear for their license.

HorseWithNoName , 10 months ago

That should also apply to drug overdoses

letmesleep , 10 months ago

That’s (in the West) already the case. Albeit that in some cases calling 112 can lead to the cops arriving as well. The only area where I’m on the fence is cases where the patient is an innocent victim. On the one hand doctors have are in a unique position that enables them to report abuse on the other hand that can lead to people being prevented from going to the doctor in the first place.

Zacryon , 10 months ago

How humiliating and grotesque. Completely inhumane.

Poland is a very religious country. So no wonder that Christianity, once again, reveals to be grotesque and inhumane.

Flax_vert , 10 months ago

And slaughtering unborn children isn’t???

Zacryon , 10 months ago

Well if you see a barely defined conglomerate of cells as a child, then yes. It isn’t. There is no harm at that point imo. The moment at which this conglomerate becomes something much further developed, this changes.

But even if we’d say that children exist at the moment of successful conception, it is from my point of view much more cruel to force women to carry out the child if they were, e.g., raped.

And that’s just the surface. So yes, I find it much more cruel to intervene with an already existing human’s life than with that of one which is not even fully existing.

albert180 , 10 months ago

No need for the emotional bullshit. Abortion in the first weeks after conception is not slaughtering. Maybe you should check out an embryology textbook in your next library