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The Guardian - UK
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Weronika Strzyżyńska and agencies in Warsaw

Polish court convicts activist for helping woman get abortion pills

Justyna Wydrzynska in the courtroom in Warsaw.
Justyna Wydrzynska in the courtroom in Warsaw. Photograph: Wojtek Radwański/AFP/Getty Images

A court in Poland has convicted an activist for helping a pregnant woman access abortion pills, sentencing her to eight months of community service in a landmark case over abortion rights in the predominantly Catholic country.

“I do not feel that I am facing the court alone,” said Justyna Wydrzynska at the hearing on Tuesday. “Behind me are my friends and hundreds of women I have not had the luck to meet yet.”

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