Judgment against Justyna Wydrzyńska overturned in symbolic moment for abortion rights movement
A Polish court has ordered a retrial in the case of an activist found guilty of helping a woman to terminate her pregnancy in a symbolic moment for Poland’s abortion rights movement.
Justyna Wydrzyńska was sentenced to community service in 2023 in the first such case for an activist in the EU country, which has a near-total abortion ban and outlaws abortion assistance.
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