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10-04-2016, 01:07 AM
Thousands of Polish women go on strike to protest abortion ban
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Women in Poland are waging a nationwide strike boycotting school and jobs to protest the introduction of a total ban on abortion.*
SEE ALSO: Women in Europe are uniting to fight anti-abortion laws (http://mashable.com/2016/04/12/abortion-protest-**rthern-ireland-poland/?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=)
In an event dubbed "Black Monday," thousands of women avoided workplaces and schools, and businesses closed their doors to protest a new law that would criminalise all terminations in Poland.*
Women took both paid and unpaid leave as part of the protest, and strikers staged a picket line — named the "Wall of Fury" — under the right wing Law and Justice party's headquarters.
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Polish women at a demonstration in Warsaw on Monday.
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Women in Poland are waging a nationwide strike boycotting school and jobs to protest the introduction of a total ban on abortion.*
SEE ALSO: Women in Europe are uniting to fight anti-abortion laws (http://mashable.com/2016/04/12/abortion-protest-**rthern-ireland-poland/?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=)
In an event dubbed "Black Monday," thousands of women avoided workplaces and schools, and businesses closed their doors to protest a new law that would criminalise all terminations in Poland.*
Women took both paid and unpaid leave as part of the protest, and strikers staged a picket line — named the "Wall of Fury" — under the right wing Law and Justice party's headquarters.
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Polish women at a demonstration in Warsaw on Monday.
Image: Sipa USA via AP Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/10/03/poland-abortion-strike/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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