The MP Mathilde Panot (LFI) and MEP Manon Aubry (LFI) brought abortive and next day on Tuesday to support militants from this Catholic country whose laws on the termination of pregnancy among the strictest in Europe. These reproductive France representatives put around 300 pills to militants in Warsaw and promised to send others to the future.
Poland almost completely prohibits abortion. Aid for abortion is liable to a prison sentence, but no law sanctions women who practice their own abortion with pills ordered online.
“The body of women does not belong to the state”
“We bring something to help women who want to interrupt their pregnancy because, whatever the situation, the women’s body does not belong to the state or to the church, but to women and to them,” said Mathilde Panot, leader of the LFI parliamentary party. “We will continue to send pills,” she said, visiting the first abortion center in Poland, located just opposite the Parliament. The parliamentarians made the trip to Poland by van.
Lots of emotion: the pills arrived at their destination in Poland 💜
After Van to join Warsaw, Mathilde Panot and Manon Aubry, with the support of @leplanninggive Justyna Wydrzyńska, Natalia Broniaczyk and their Polish collective… pic.twitter.com/mfcMuJZzi0
— Mathilde Panot (@MathildePanot) April 29, 2025
The association Abortion Dream Team created this center last month in order to put pressure on the legislators and to offer a space where women who plan to interrupt their pregnancy can get help to do so. For activist Justyna Wydrzynska, the French visit represents “support that we do not have from politicians in Poland”.
Polish women can only have the hospital in hospital if pregnancy results from sexual assault or incest, or if it constitutes a direct threat to the life or health of the mother. Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s civic coalition is committed to soften these lawsbut she has not yet obtained the support of the Parliament to pass the changes.
“Bring our solidarity”
According to official figures, just under 900 abortions were performed at the hospital last year in this country of 38 million inhabitants. But tens of thousands of women put an end to their pregnancy every year at home – Using pills – or abroad, according to women’s rights associations.
Several decades ago, “when abortion was not legal in France, French women came to Poland to abort,” said Manon Aubry, leader of LFI deputies in the European Parliament. “Today, we bring our solidarity in the other direction,” she said.
