nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20211117-201847-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 211117s2021||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20211117-201847-0 doi eng 342 23 Kocemba, Karolina Author aut Towards Gilead - One Year After the Constitutional Court Abortion Ruling in Poland Kocemba, Karolina Verfassungsblog 2021-11-17 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier Just over one year ago, the Constitutional Court (CC) of Poland banned abortion in cases of fetal malformations. The implications of the ruling are much more far-reaching than the actual abortion ban itself since the ruling, by its reasoning, gave green light for further actions limiting abortion laws. While women all over Poland are afraid to get pregnant, the ruling party and fundamentalist organizations take further legislative action to increase punishment for abortion. Step by step Poland is beginning to resemble Gilead Republic, the infamous patriarchal theocracy from Margaret Atwood's novel "The Handmaid's Tale". CC BY-SA 4.0 Abortion Reproductive Rights Women's Rights Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/towards-gilead/ raw object