The victory of the opposition in Hungary yesterday, like the Polish election in 2023, is a victory for democracy, not just in Europe but around the world. Most of all, it’s a testament to the resilience and determination of the Hungarian people – and a reminder to all of us to keep striving for fairness, equality and the rule of law.
This is happening in Poland right now.
A woman named Lela, a Georgian citizen living in Poland, is 15 weeks pregnant and hospitalized in Olsztyn.
She is vomiting blood. She cannot eat.
She is being fed intravenously.
She is physically collapsing.
And doctors are refusing to perform an abortion. Polish law technically allows termination of pregnancy when a woman's physical or mental health is at risk.
Yet doctors are hesitating while her condition worsens.
How close to death does a woman have to be before she is considered "sick enough"?
Forcing someone to continue a pregnancy while she is vomiting blood in a hospital bed is not "pro-life."
If you believe in bodily autonomy, this is your issue. If you believe in medical ethics, this is your issue. If you believe women are not incubators, this is your issue.
Because today it's Lela. Tomorrow it's someone else.
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During World War II, more than six million Polish citizens died. Three million were Polish Jews, part of a thriving community that had found refuge in Poland for centuries against Russian pogroms. The rest? Non Jewish Poles.
Unlike every other European nation under Nazi occupation, Poland never had an SS unit created. There was no Polish quisling government cooperating with the Germans.
Poland had the largest resistance movement in occupied Europe and was the first to inform the outside world of the Holocaust - warnings that were ignored by the Allies.
There are thousands of examples of Poles risking their lives to save Jewish people during the war. This is why Poles are the largest group recognised as Righteous Among the Nations at Yad Vashem.
I was honoured to meet one of them, Józef Walaszczyk, who saved more than 50 Polish Jews through extraordinary bravery. His story is recorded on my YouTube series, The Price of Life.
Yes, there was anti-Semitism in Poland before, during, and after the war, but to suggest that Poles had any hand in orchestrating the Holocaust is a gross distortion of history - an insult to a nation that suffered horrendously under Nazi rule and to those who stood against genocide at the cost of their lives.
The truth matters.
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