Polish artist recreates famous Solidarity poster for abortion rights protests

  • 10/29/2020
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WARSAW (Reuters) - Warsaw artist Jarek Kubicki has designed posters for the hundreds of thousands protesting against the restriction of abortion in Poland based on a famous image of the Solidarity trade union, which helped topple communism in the country.The Constitutional Court’s decision last Thursday that abortions due to foetal abnormalities are unconstitutional has brought hundreds of thousands of people onto the streets in recent days, demanding Poland’s conservative government reverse the ruling. Once it goes into effect, abortion will only be legal in the case of incest, rape or a threat to the mother’s health. Kubicki, who hails from Gdansk, where the Solidarity movement sprung up in the ship yards in 1980, wanted to highlight what he calls the similarities between the union’s fight against communism and the fight against the abortion restriction.

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