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June 13 there was a picket organized by feminist organizations outside of the parliament (the Sejm). The reason for the picket was incidents surrounding the story of a 14-year old girl who wanted to get an abortion.

The girl said that she was raped. Polish law allows for abortions to be performed only in certain cases. She was given papers but in Lublin, where the girl was from, two hospitals decided not to take her. Polish law allows doctors to refuse to perform abortions, provided they sent the patient on to another hospital which should agree. She went to Warsaw only to find that a group of pro-lifers, led by a priest from Lublin, were harrassing the doctors and even occupied the office of the hospital. She was turned down again.

In the meanwhile, the story turned in to a media circus. The right-wing magazine Fronda published the girls name and the papers were saying that she hadn't been raped because the rapist had been her boyfriend. The mother of the girl lost custody and she is in "care'. Priests and pro-lifers are still harrassing her to have the child. Others have offered to help her have the abortion, but as time passes, her pregnancy is advancing and it is now illegal totally since after 3 months no abortions are allowed in an circumstances. She may go abroad, but her "care" may in fact be something of a prison.

It is not known how many women are in a similar situation since probably only the poorest of women even try to make a legal abortion in Poland. In the meanwhile, the abortion underground in Poland is flourishing, with some doctors who refuse to perform abortions at hospitals willing to do it privately for money. (Some argue that is because even the ones who are willing may face charges for doing it in a public hospital.) Thousands of abortions are also performed on Polish women each year in other European countries.