Workshop on systemic consequences of abortion decisions in the USA and Poland
On 22 October 2020, the Polish Constitutional Tribunal declared that one of the three exceptions allowing abortion is unconstitutional. This decision almost totally banned abortion procedures for Polish women. Interpreting the 1997 Constitution, the CT left no space for the Parliament to decide on the procedures and closed the possibility of discussing the abortion issue even within the referendum.
The Supreme Court of the USA, on 24 June 2022, opened the door for state parliaments to decide on abortion procedures. The court’s decision overruled previous Roe v. Wade (1973) and Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992) decisions that granted constitutional protection to the right to abortion in the United States of America.
These decisions of the apex courts of Poland and the USA violated women’s rights differently, though. During the meeting, prominent scholars from both jurisdictions will discuss the systemic consequences of the rulings.
Workshop date: December 16, 5pm Warsaw time, Teams
Organization of the panel: Agnieszka Bień-Kacała, an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law and Administration University of Szczecin and the Research Group Gender and Constitution in Poland
Moderator: Valentina Rita Scotti, an Associate Professor in Comparative Public Law at the European Law and Governance School of the European Public Law Organization. Co-chair of the ‚Gender and Constitutions’ by the IACL-AIDC Research Group.
Speakers:
Mary Ziegler – the Martin Luther King Professor of law at University of California at Davis.
Magdalena Grzyb – Assistant Professor at the Criminology Department, Jagiellonian University’s Faculty of Law and Administration in Krakow.
Sponsorship: the ‚Gender and Constitutions’ Research Group operating under the International Association of Constitutional Law.