The Abortion Dream Team assisted a woman in arranging an abortion in a twin pregnancy. A representative of the group boasted that they had provided information that the pregnant woman allegedly could not have obtained anywhere else. The Foundation Life and Family warns that during a selective abortion, the child dies in horrific agony. The Ordo Iuris Institute has announced that it will file a criminal complaint in the case.
The Abortion Dream Team (ADT) publicly described its assistance with carrying out a selective abortion on social media. Justyna Wydrzyńska, a member of the group, stated that the intervention was in response to a request from a woman who had not planned to become pregnant with twins and wanted to have only one child.
“Selective abortion is possible in Europe. Some centres perform it at different stages of pregnancy, and we provided this person with that solution. In other words, she received […] a complete set of information that will allow her life to be fulfilled, happy, and to unfold the way she planned it. She would never have learned this information from any doctor, gynaecologist, obstetrician, or female physician […] because those doctors most likely do not possess this information, and even if they do, it is incomplete, so the person still has to search for it independently. And we hand it to her on a plate,” she declared, while also arguing that the case was further “proof”
that her organisation’s activities are necessary.
“A method banned even for animals”
“The degree of dehumanisation displayed by ADT activists is simply unbelievable. They treat children, and they do so completely openly, like toys in a shop that can be taken off the shelf whenever someone feels like it, and returned if necessary. Because they are ‘defective’ or simply unwanted!”
the Foundation Life and Family commented.
An article published on the foundation’s website states that selective abortion in twin pregnancies “consists in killing one selected child, usually through an injection of potassium chloride directly into the heart”.
“We have written many times about this barbaric method of killing, which is banned even in relation to animals. It is impossible to imagine the horror of such a procedure, both for the murdered little child, who dies in terrible agony, and for his or her brother or sister lying right beside them,” the foundation wrote.
“Research indicates that twins in the womb already sense each other’s presence and respond to it at an early stage of pregnancy. Ultrasound recordings often show the babies touching each other’s heads or backs, and even embracing. And suddenly one of them is to receive an extremely painful injection of poison because the mother decided that two children at once are too many. The scale of cruelty involved in such a procedure is beyond comprehension. Yet Justyna Wydrzyńska speaks about facilitating it calmly, even proudly…,”
the foundation added.
Criminal complaint to be filed
The shocking reports also prompted a response from the Ordo Iuris Institute.
“In connection with information that the Abortion Dream Team provided assistance in carrying out a selective abortion in a twin pregnancy, Ordo Iuris will submit a notification of suspected criminal offence concerning aiding and abetting abortion under Article 152 § 2 of the Polish Criminal Code,”
said the institute’s lawyer, Magdalena Majkowska.
“Aiding and abetting within the meaning of this provision includes any conduct facilitating the termination of pregnancy, including providing tools or means of transport, as well as giving advice or information (cf. judgment of the Court of Appeal in Gdańsk of 9 February 2017, case no. II AKa 294/16),”
she explained.
She added that “the criminal liability of an accomplice is not dependent on the place where the prohibited act was committed, the provision applies regardless of whether the termination of pregnancy took place in Poland or abroad”.
Under Article 152 § 2 of the Polish Criminal Code, providing assistance in terminating a pregnancy in violation of the law, or encouraging such an act, is punishable by up to three years’ imprisonment.