Artist was humiliated by the authorities and lambasted by the press after terminating a pregnancy, but refuses to be silenced
From the article:
One night, two weeks after I’d taken the pills, I was at home when suddenly there was a loud banging on my front door and shouts of “police!”.
I had just come off the phone with my psychologist. It had been a stressful time and that night I’d had a panic attack. I’ve had these many times before and I called my psychologist for help. She asked me about any new medication I’d been taking so I told her about the abortion pills.
She was calm and told me that she was calling a paramedic. Instead she called the police. Later, the recording of her conversation with the police was leaked to the press, where she can be heard telling them that I’d had an abortion and was suicidal, though I specifically told her I wasn’t.
I have a lot to say about my psychologist, none of it fit for print, but suffice to say I trusted her completely and she violated that trust and our confidentiality.
It’s been two weeks. They’ve been in power for two weeks.
And you have to understand, this isn’t caused by the right-wing passing some law, oh no, no… The Constitutional Court declared abortion unconstitutional. To change this, the new government needs to either change the constitution (requires a massive majority in Parliament), or completely rebuild the current justice system, replacing the CC justices responsible for that ruling (which will take a long time). Any attempt to do it with a simple act will get struck down by the right-wing in just the same way.
That is nothing to say about the fact that about a third of government coalition doesn’t want complete legalisation, only a return to the old “compromise”
EDIT: And they did manage to do a lot in those two weeks so far, it’s not like this is the only thing they promised to do.
Can they decriminalize it? I understand that legalization is very tricky institutionally, but there is a vast spectrum of improvements they can make to go from the hell described by this woman to something much more civilized.