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Post by TsarSamuil on Oct 24, 2020 4:16:45 GMT -5
Hmmm...defects should be an exception otherwise you force the parents to suffer with a mongo child for the rest of their lives..Violence erupts on Poland’s streets as people protest near total abortion ban. RT.com 23 Oct, 2020 12:30 Police fired pepper spray at hundreds of demonstrators in Warsaw as they opposed a court ruling almost completely banning abortion in the country. Several hundred people gathered in front of Poland’s Constitutional Court and marched towards the residence of the Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the leader of the country’s ruling Law and Justice Party (PiS), to protest a court decision that essentially outlaws abortion. Police used pepper spray to disperse the crowd. In response, the protesters threw rocks and attempted to break through the cordon around the house. The demonstration was finally dispersed in the early hours of Friday morning. However, the organizers called for more people to gather throughout the day. A police spokesman confirmed 15 people were detained. Thursday evening also saw smaller protests in other locations across Poland, including Krakow, Lodz and Szczecin, which went ahead without clashes with law enforcement. Opponents of the court’s ruling have accused the judges of acting on behalf of the PiS, as the party nominated the majority of individuals on the Constitutional Tribunal. PiS has denied any attempts to influence the court. The Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Dunja Mijatovic called it a “sad day for women’s rights,” and said, “removing the basis for almost all legal abortions in Poland amounts to a ban and violates human rights.” Kara Godek, a member of Poland’s Stop Abortion group, praised the decision, saying, “today Poland is an example for Europe, it’s an example for the world.” Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal ruled on Thursday that abortion due to fetal defects are unconstitutional, banning the most common legal grounds for terminating a pregnancy in the country. Prior to the decision, Poland already had some of the strictest anti-abortion laws in Europe.
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Post by TsarSamuil on Dec 8, 2020 7:09:51 GMT -5
Hungary and Poland are right to put traditional values before money and resist the EU’s dictatorial plan to push trans rights. RT, Frank Furedi 28 Nov, 2020 08:00 It’s not transphobic for Hungary and Poland to want to recognise only men and women and uphold their traditional, conservative way of life. But this puts them on a collision course with the EU’s proposed new LGBTIQ laws. The European Union wants to teach Hungary and Poland a lesson by forcing its newly proposed plan to ‘promote gender equality’ down these nations’ throats. What this means is that if a government upholds the view that there are only two sexes – man and woman – it will be accused of violating the EU’s ‘values’ and risk facing serious financial sanctions! The European Commission, which recently presented its “first-ever EU Strategy for lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, non-binary, intersex and queer (LGBTIQ) equality,” is not simply interested in defending people from discrimination. Its aim is to enact a law designed to “protect the rights of rainbow families so that their parenthood and same-sex partnership is recognised throughout the union.” Through legislating on these issues, it can claim that anyone and any government that refuses to act in accordance with the newly created law is rejecting the Rule of Law. And any nation that rejects its definition of the Rule of Law is automatically branded as an anti-democratic pariah state that does not share the EU’s values. The principal aim of the EU’s LGBTIQ strategy is to give Hungary and Poland a choice of either falling in line or facing a very serious punishment. The sudden rush in Brussels – in the middle of a catastrophic pandemic – to publish a series of LGBTIQ-related strategy papers has been motivated by the objective of using this issue to punish Poland and Hungary for what the EU oligarchy sees as recalcitrant behaviour. An integral feature of the EU’s crusade against uncooperative east European nations is to criminalise forms of behaviour that those societies consider normal. For example, Hungary has been criticised by EU leaders for upholding the culture of heteronormativity. In woke circles in Brussels, the notion that heterosexual relations are the norm is now denounced as cultural crime. The Hungarian and Polish governments have indicated that they strongly support equality between men and women, but at the same time they reject the EU’s demands for sacralising gender equality. Why do they adopt this approach? Because unlike the subjective ideology of gender, which rejects the binary distinction between male and female as transphobic, these governments uphold the centuries-old belief that in fact there are just two sexes, man and woman. Unlike advocates of trans-culture in the West, they reject the claim that one’s sex is subjective. It maintains the biological binary between people with XX and those with XY chromosomes – that is between women and men. Part of the EU’s LGBTIQ strategy is to extend the list of ‘EU crimes’ under Article 83 (1) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) to cover hate crime and hate speech, including when targeted at LGBTIQ people. It also plans to bring forward a legislative initiative to protect the rights of rainbow families so that their parenthood and same-sex partnership is recognised throughout the union. There is little doubt that Poland and Hungary will resist these laws, and therefore the EU leaders will accuse them of violating the Rule of Law. A spokesperson for the Hungarian Permanent Representation to the EU said that “defining the concept of gender falls under the exclusive competence of the member states, which must be respected,” and added, “EU documents … should therefore only contain references that are acceptable for each member state and build on sound legal foundations, consensual definitions.” However, the EU is not seeking consensus. Nor is it prepared to tolerate a diversity of views and customs towards the conduct of sexual and family life. It believes that it alone has a monopoly to decide on these very intimate and moral issues. The EU hopes that by tying the provision of funding to the acceptance of its woke LGBTIQ ethos, it could force Hungary and Poland to act according to the script assigned to colonial subjects. Recent comments by the leaders of these nations indicates that, at least for now, this strategy will not work. The Prime Minister of Hungary Viktor Orban has argued that values are more important than money. What the EU really fears is that it is not just Hungary and Poland who reject its woke directive. Millions of people throughout Europe regard the EU’s LGBTIQ strategy as driven by the objective of undermining their way of life. In their heart of hearts, many of them wish that their own government would have the courage to stand up to Brussels’ imperial ambitions. |
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Post by TsarSamuil on Dec 22, 2020 17:10:45 GMT -5
Russian MP slams Health Ministry for proposing restrictions on acceptable reasons for abortion, labels move ‘Polish way’
RT.com
15 Dec, 2020 13:52
A leading liberal-leaning MP from Russia's governing party has attacked a proposal which she says restricts women's abortion rights, and could lead to a situation where the country eventually goes down the same road as Poland.
Oksana Pushkina's wrath was targeted at the Ministry of Health, after it drew up a list, proposing reduced number of medical grounds for terminating a pregnancy after 12 weeks. The reasons include illnesses like tuberculosis, HIV, and rubella, and would remove the right to an abortion if the mother and foetus are healthy.
Pushkina has slammed the move as the “Polish way,” as the Russian proposal comes just a month after Poland's constitutional court restricted the legal termination of a pregnancy to a select few reasons.
Within the first 12 weeks, pregnancy will continue to remain legal at will of the woman.
According to the MP, abortion shouldn't be encouraged, but it should always remain an option for a woman to choose, noting that there are often other reasons behind the decision, completely unrelated to health.
“The decision to terminate a pregnancy is not easy, and most often there are not ethical, but socio-economic reasons behind it: the inability to give the baby everything you need, to provide it with prospects in life,” she explained, on Sunday.
A hundred years ago, the USSR became Europe's first country to legalize the voluntary termination of pregnancy. Sixteen years later, in 1936, it was again made illegal, before being revoked after the end of Josef Stalin's rule, which finished in 1953.
“Talk to grandmothers and great-grandmothers who remember the post-war years when abortion was banned in the USSR,” she said. “It led to a monstrous increase in the number of backstreet abortions performed by village midwives.”
In Russia, Pushkina has gained a reputation for her progressive views, and recently made international headlines after sticking up for the country's LGBT community.
A former TV host and children's rights activist, and now a member of the governing United Russia party, she was recently recognized by the BBC in their 100 Women 2020 list, which highlighted her support for journalists who made sexual harassment claims against fellow MP Leonid Slutsky. She currently sits on the State Duma Committee for Family, Women and Children Issues, in the role of deputy chairwoman.
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Post by TsarSamuil on Dec 22, 2020 17:12:18 GMT -5
‘Dark day for LGBTQ community’: Hungary passes law making adoptions by same sex couples impossible.
RT.com
15 Dec, 2020 14:59
Hungary’s parliament has passed a law that effectively bans same-sex couples from adopting children, provoking a major outcry from human rights groups and LGBTQ activists.
The legislation, pushed forward by the government of conservative Prime Minister Viktor Orban, whose Fidesz party enjoys a two-thirds majority in the National Assembly, makes only married couples eligible to adopt children.
With same sex-marriages banned in the country, it basically disqualifies gay and lesbian unions from applying for adoption. “The main rule is that only married couples can adopt a child, that is, a man and a woman who are married,” the law reads.
A loophole in which one member of an LGBTQ couple adopted a child as a single person has also been closed. Unmarried people now require special permission from the family affairs minister to adopt, and Katalin Novak, who occupies the post, is known as a strong supporter of traditional values.
During Tuesday’s session of the National Assembly, 134 out of 199 MPs voted in favor of the law, 45 rejected it, with five deputies abstaining. The Democratic Coalition, which has nine seats, skipped the vote as it labeled the legislation illegal.
The parliament also approved amendments to the constitutions, which among other things define a family as the union of a father, who is male, and a mother, who is female.
Amnesty International blasted the law as “discriminatory, homophobic and transphobic,” with the group’s director, David Vig, saying it represents yet another attack on the LGBT community in the country.
“This is a dark day for Hungary’s LGBTQ community and a dark day for human rights,” Vig said, accusing the government of using the coronavirus pandemic to rush through the law, which was just proposed in November.
International gay rights group ILGA said that due to the legislation, “LGBTI children will be forced to grow up in an environment which restricts them from being able to express their identities.”
Hungary has firmly resisted the EU’s recent push to expand the rights of LGBTQ people, despite risking violating EU law.
Along with Poland, the Hungarian government has been stalling the approval of the EU budget over a clause which links the allocation of funds to how member states uphold the rule of law. A compromise on the 1.8 trillion package was not reached until last week.
The disagreements between Budapest and Brussels go far beyond the rights of same sex couples, and include immigration, media freedom, and rules for non-governmental organizations.
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Post by TsarSamuil on Dec 24, 2020 6:34:35 GMT -5
Russian MP Zhirinovsky suggests government offer money to discourage women from abortion, to help alleviate demographic crisis.
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24 Dec, 2020 10:46
Veteran Russian politician Vladimir Zhirinovsky has proposed that the state pay money to pregnant women to prevent them having abortions, an idea which he claims could solve the country’s demographic crisis.
The nationalist LDPR leader’s initiative is sure to upset some people who would be opposed to bribing women to have children. As things stand, Russian mothers with multiple children receive “maternal capital,” a lump sum given to enable the parent to help their offspring. Now, Zhirinovsky proposes offering this same money to women who give their newborn to the state, where they could be offered for adoption, instead of terminating a pregnancy.
“Let’s send it to a woman who wants to give up a child, terminate a pregnancy,” Zhirinovsky said. “I assure you, tens, and in the future, hundreds of thousands will agree to keep the child, give it to the state and get the family capital.”
“This is very important, it is very necessary for us, but it is not being done.”
The veteran politician was speaking to a meeting of the parliamentary political leaders, from the four most represented parties in the State Duma. In response to Zhirinovsky’s idea, ‘Fair Russia’ head Sergey Mironov also suggested increasing the amount of maternity capital year-on-year, at more than one percent over the current rate of inflation. Right now, the lump sum figure is 466,617 rubles ($6,255), and can only be used for certain things, such as house improvement and education.
Like most of Europe, Russia is currently battling a demographic crisis, as the country’s population continues to fall. Just this year, between January and October, according to official stats, the number of Russians decreased by 381,800.
Earlier this year, Communist Party MP Tamara Pletnyova, suggested that Russians of child-bearing age who do not want to reproduce “should be taxed.”
“This was the case in Soviet times,” she explained. “Only then, it was not women who paid for childlessness, but men.”
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