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first you have to battle your entire extended family over half a hectare of corn field though

As a dyslexic child, I thought his name *was* Islamabad for much longer than socially acceptable

Nonetheless most abortions in Poland continue to be facilitated by grassroots and international organisations. Abortion Without Borders facilitated 38,508 abortions for Polish residents in 2025 – most via medication sent in the post from abroad.

These abortions are not included in official reports

In 2024, the health minister issued legal guidance to hospitals, asserting that “risks to health” which allow doctors to legally perform an abortion include mental health and that an abortion can be performed if a qualified psychiatrist judges it to be necessary.

However, the new data suggests that increasing number of abortion seekers are able to access the procedure under the two remaining legal avenues: by proving that the pregnancy is a result of crime, eg. rape or incest, or that it puts their health or life at risk.

Prior to the 2021, foetal disability was cited as the reason for up to 98% of legal abortions in Poland. When the Constitutional Tribunal ruled that terminating a pregnancy on this ground was unconstitutional, the official number of abortions fell from 1,076 in 2020 to only 107 a year later

graph showing the number of abortions in Polish hospitals returning to pre-2021 levels

In 2021 a near-total abortion ban was introduced in Poland. Five years on, the number of abortions carried out in Polish hospitals is reaching pre-ban levels

Palestine Action protesters not guilty of defence firm burglary The group are cleared of aggravated burglary over the alleged raid at an Elbit Systems warehouse.

After 17 months in prison, 6 Palestine Action members have been cleared of all charges over an alleged raid on Elbit Systems. What an embarassment for the government and their expansion of 'counter-terror' measures.

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First news letter coming out tomorrow :)))

About - KOŁTUN Unknotting the global anti gender network from an Eastern European perspective. Click to read KOŁTUN, by Weronika Strzyżyńska, a Substack publication. Launched 2 days ago.

Hello! I am launching a substack to cover reproductive rights and gender related news coming from Eastern Europe.

Subscribe for a bimonthly digest of news from the region and a monthly deep-dive on the intertwined history of the Polish and American anti-abortion movement
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we had this one on DVD in my house bc it came free with a magazine and i don't think i ever met another soul who has seen it

I have been going full hermit mode for months now and suddenly an urge to post has awoken in me

do proton docs not let you download in just .docx format?

Rusted screws, metal spikes and plastic rubbish: the horrific sexual violence used against Tigray’s women Tens of thousands of Tigrayan women report brutal wartime abuse by Ethiopian and Eritrean soldiers, such as gang-rape and the insertion of objects into their uteruses. But justice seems a distant pros...

Never will I forget how the world treated this genocide and how the so-called "human rights" Ethiopians and Eritreans opining on everything and anything were cheering on this genocide.

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ACTUALLY, the first american pope was David Bawden (Pope Michael I)

Anti-racism campaigner’s London book events cancelled amid threat of far-right violence Freedom of speech groups alarmed after events to promote book by Hope Not Hate employee are called off

Worth reading in full to see how bad things have become. Looks like it might become a standard tactic for stuff that the far right notices. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Demi Moore in prosthetic makeup from the set of the The Substance

how i feel picking up my SSRI prescription on Monday after I ran out on Friday

Fatima converted to Islam in the 1880s after joining Liverpool's temperance movement. She was a working class woman who saw Islam as a hope for social reform and female emancipation. She was a cofounder of UKs first mosque where she also taught. Unlike her male contemporaries, she was forgotten

Forgotten pioneer of British Islam Fatima Cates is being written back into history More than a century after her death, the rediscovery of an important Victorian figure is inspiring new generations

Fatima Cates, an important Victorian figure, is inspiring new generations.

‘It’s our duty as Muslims, especially in Britain, to share her life,’ says Hamid Mahmood, founder of Fatima Elizabeth Phrontistery.

@weronikas.bsky.social reports.

📸 Jane MacNeil

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is there a starter pack for misandry and cyberbullying?

this site had big Cath Kidston energy that im not sure how to navigate

Amrou Al-Kadhi: ‘Drag is like a love letter to my mother’ The writer, director and drag artist on their new film Layla, and their enduring and complicated relationship with their mother

'Queer people of colour are forced to augment who they are to move through the world,' says Amrou Al-Kadhi.

We spoke to the British-Iraqi drag performer and filmmaker about their debut feature Layla (out 22 Nov) and finding joy in storytelling.

📸 Nick Delisi

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A pregnant woman sues for the right to an abortion in challenge to Kentucky's near-total ban A pregnant woman has filed a lawsuit seeking the right to an abortion in Kentucky. It's the latest challenge to the state’s near-total ban on the procedure.

A Kentucky woman who's 7 weeks pregnant is challenging the state's abortion ban for the very valid reason that she simply doesn't want to be pregnant (from Monday)
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BREAKING: Trump appoints Cato the Elder as ambassador to Carthage

This is long overdue, & a good reference point for tackling one of the darkest aspects of Norway's history.

That the most populist right-wing party opposed the measure is an important sign that this motion is very, very necessary.

Abortion isn't legal in the UK, but is legally permitted in certain circumstances.

This places it in a precarious position.

Actually making abortion legal would give it a firmer foundation should the right want to go all project 2025 in the UK as well.

Fears grow that woman arrested for undressing in Iran could be tortured in psychiatric unit Protesters and political prisoners are being drugged, tortured and beaten in state-run institutions, say rights groups

The woman was transferred to a psychiatric hospital by the authorities.

Amnesty International said it had found evidence [of] electric shocks, torture, beatings and chemical substances [used] on prisoners taken to state-run psychiatric institutions

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Everyone always reaches for Cable Street in these moments, but London kept fighting fascists for decades: this is a picture of Mosley trying to hold a rally in Hackney and being punched to the ground by antifascists literally as soon as the meeting opened 💪

Britain’s first black voter was in 1749, 25 years earlier than thought, and ran a pub John London, a landlord, paid rates so could take part in Westminster byelection despite being called a ‘blackamoor’

I love these little fragments of a life you find in stories like this:

Ok, powiem tak. Pomysł z seansem wywoływania duchów i przeprowadzanie wywiadu ze zjawą brzmi bardziej normalnie niż wywiad z kimś generowanym przez ai.