The abortion right: abortion law and the case of Poland

Abstract

The dissertation topic is the right to abortion. It will be divided into three chapters which will each focus on different level of the issue. The first one focuses on the practice itself from a more scientific point of view. It will show data about safe and unsafe abortion procedures, specific methods, treatments and contraceptives and lastly it will analyse the current abortion access situation amid the Covid-19 pandemic. The second chapter will examine the legal level. Specifically, it will illustrate the law from an historical and geographical perspective, then it will move to the display of women’s reproductive rights and past judgements that are particularly important. Lastly, the third chapter will target the specific case of Poland which changed the legal ground to obtain an abortion in 2021 following a constitutional court decision. It will do so by examining firstly the parliamentary debate and then the political debate.