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Panelová diskuze je součástí festivalu FRAGILE LIKE A BOMB, který pořádá organizace Ciocia Czesia. Jedná se o jednodenní benefiční akci, jejíž cílem je zvýšit povědomí o reprodukčních právech a pomocí výtěžku podpořit ženy, které přijíždějí do Česka za bezpečným ukončením těhotenství. Pracovním jazykem je angličtina. Tématem bude konzervativní obrat, k němuž dochází po celém světě, a jeho dopadu na reprodukční práva.
Řečníci:
– Andrada Cilibiu (Centrul FILIA, Bukurešť),
– Lilia Khousnoutdinova (Propolis33),
– Silvie Lauder (Respekt),
– Zdenka (Nebudeme ticho)
Moderuje Valeriya Kim
FB událost s kompletním programem festivalu FRAGILE LIKE A BOMB
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Panel discussion is a part of the FRAGILE LIKE A BOMB festival held by Ciocia Czesia. It is a one-day fundraising event aimed to draw attention to reproductive rights and raise funds to support women who come to the Czech Republic for safe abortion. Working language is english. The topic will be the conservative turn that is taking place around the world and its impact on reproductive rights.
Speakers:
– Andrada Cilibiu (Centrul FILIA, Bukurešť),
– Lilia Khousnoutdinova (Propolis33),
– Silvie Lauder (Respekt),
– Zdenka (Nebudeme ticho)
The discussion is moderated by Valeriya Kim
FB event with a general overview of the FRAGILE LIKE BOMB festival programme
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Unfortunately, public discussions about reproductive justice are still needed. While over the past 25 years, more than 50 states have changed their legislation to support greater access to abortion, according to the WHO, 40 percent of women of childbearing age live in countries with highly restrictive abortion laws or where abortion is both illegal and unavailable. A de facto ban on abortion has been in place in Poland for almost three years, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe vs. Wade a few months ago, and sex-selective abortions continue to occur in many countries. In ordinary friendly debate, body autonomy is often treated as a matter of personal opinion, not a human right.
The Czech Republic is far from reproductive justice. The price of an abortion is now set at CZK 5 000 (in practice it can be more), while pharmacological termination of pregnancy is even more expensive. Abortion at one’s own request can not be covered by public health insurance, even in the case of rape. The trauma of sexualised violence can be compounded by the stress of having to raise a large sum of money in one lump sum. Getting money quickly can also be a problem for women living with a violent partner who guards the household purse.
Not only the abortion system that suffers from severe shortcomings. In fact, universally available health services, sufficient regional transport services, sex education in schools and access to contraception across the country are also prerequisites for reproductive justice. In addition, the Czech Republic remains one of the last countries in Europe that still requires sterilisation (in our context it is more like castration) for official sex change of trans* people. And it was only last year that the legislature passed a law to compensate the mostly Roma women who were illegally sterilized between 1966 and 2012, and who had to fight for a long time to get the state to apologize to them at all. A separate chapter, then, is the Czech maternity system, which provides only minimal space for parents – for example, in the choice
of place of birth and the associated obstetric violence or the exclusion of midwives from providing obstetric care.
In Anti-Gender Politics in the Populist Moment, Elżbieta Korolczuk and Agnieszka Graff link the rise of anti-gender movements in Europe to the social impact of neoliberalism. The anti-genderists purposefully involve emotions in their policies, position themselves as defenders of socially disadvantaged families (of course only families of the right ethnicity), secularize outwardly but actually fundamentalise society. Graff and Korolczuk also talk about changing language as one of their main strategies. As for abortion, anti-genderists no longer speak of it as a „sin against God’s will,“ but as a factor threatening women’s lives, while they are trying to protect women. This is also the style that framed the „We don’t judge but help“ campaign of the Hnutí pro život, which our panelist Sylvia Lauder analyses about in her
investigative piece.
Czech anti-gender movements thus have political connections, a strong organization, a well-thought-out strategy and plenty of funds. Feminist movements, on the other hand, are concentrated in big cities and all their activities are voluntary (which is quite emotionally demanding, given who is against them). For sure what is happening in Visegrad and the United States should not leave us quiet. We need to protest and organize for reproductive justice before the abortion approach becomes a controversial issue here.
How to talk inclusively about reproductive justice? What all does it include and what do we see ways with achieving it? How is the anti-abortion movement developing in our country, in Slovakia or Romania? How do we need to confront them? We will discuss these and other questions in a panel discussion with columnist Silvia Lauder, a member of the movement Nebudeme ticho! Zdena, Lilia Khousnoutdinova from the Propolis 33 Foundation and Andrada Cibiliu from Centrul FILIA.