2020–2021 women's strike protests in Poland

2020–2021 Women's strike protests in Poland
2020–2021 Women's strike protests in Poland
Women's Strike (Polish: Strajk Kobiet); Part of the Polish constitutional crisis
	Clockwise starting from top: protest in Kraków, protest in Bielsko-Biała, protest symbol, protest in Miodowa, protest in Wrocław.
Date	22 October 2020 – 27 January 2021
Location	Poland
Caused by	The Constitutional Tribunal's decision finding abortion in cases of "disability or incurable illness" to be unconstitutional in the country
Goals	Revocation of the judgement of the Constitutional Tribunal or the removal of most abortion restrictions;
Methods	Demonstrations, marches, graffiti, leaflet drop, street blockades, street dance protests, strike, vandalism
Resulted in	Popularity of the government decreased; The verdict stayed in place;
Parties
Abortion ban proponents: Law enforcement City Guard; Police Police Prevention Units; Independent Counter-Terrorist Units of the Police "BOA"; ; Internal Security Agency; Polish Armed Forces Military Gendarmerie; ; ; Institutions Constitutional Tribunal; Episcopal Conference of Poland; National Broadcasting Council; ; Political parties United Right Law and Justice; United Poland; ; Confederation Liberty and Independence National Movement; ; ; Activist groups Ordo Iuris; Fidei Defensor; Life and Family Foundation; ; Political groups National Radical Camp; All-Polish Youth; Camp of Great Poland; National Guard; Falanga; ; Media Radio Maryja; TV Trwam; Telewizja Polska; Polskie Radio; Nasz Dziennik; Telewizja Republika; Gazeta Polska; Do Rzeczy; Sieci; Najwyższy Czas!; ;	Abortion ban opponents: Lead organisations All-Poland Women's Strike; ; Political parties National The Left Left Together; New Left; Spring; ; Polish Socialist Party; 22px Polish Communist Party; Civic Coalition 22px Polish Initiative; The Greens; ; International European European United Left–Nordic Green Left; European People's Party; Greens–European Free Alliance; Renew Europe; Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats; National European Enhedslisten; ; Political groups Silesian Autonomy Movement; ; Activist groups Campaign Against Homophobia; Abortion Dream Team; Women on Web; Doctors for Women; Antifascist Coalition; ; Trade unions Workers' Initiative; WZZ August '80; ; NGOs Federation for the rights of Women and Family Planning; Women's Rights Centre; Greenpeace; Amnesty International Poland; Stefan Batory Foundation; Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights; ; Media Gazeta.pl; Gazeta Wyborcza; Krytyka Polityczna; NaTemat.pl; Newsweek Polska; OKO.press; Radio Tok FM; ; Businesses mBank; E.Wedel; Bar Wieczorny (Mokotów); Lukullus; Pan Tu Nie Stał; Resibo; Moye; MLE Collection; Elementy; LeBrand; MOIÉL; Netguru; Kubota; Bobby Burger; Green Caffe Nero; ;
Lead figures
	Politicians Andrzej Duda; Mariusz Błaszczak; Mateusz Morawiecki; Jarosław Kaczyński; Antoni Macierewicz; Przemysław Czarnek; Zbigniew Ziobro; Robert Winnicki; Krzysztof Bosak; ; Judicial figures Bogdan Święczkowski; Julia Przyłębska; Krystyna Pawłowicz; ; Religious figures Tadeusz Rydzyk; Stanisław Gądecki; Leszek Gęsiak; ; Activists Kaja Godek; Ziemowit Przebitkowski; Robert Bąkiewicz; Bartosz Bekier; ; Others gen. dyw. Tomasz Połuch; ; Activists Marta Lempart; Klementyna Suchanow; Lana Dadu; ; Politicians Agnieszka Dziemianowicz-Bąk; Barbara Nowacka; Urszula Zielińska; Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus; Anna Maria Żukowska; Daria Gosek-Popiołek; Magdalena Biejat; Marcelina Zawisza; Adrian Zandberg; Maciej Konieczny; Robert Biedroń; Krzysztof Śmiszek; Krzysztof Gawkowski; ;
Number
Over 180,000 people	Over 430,000 people
Casualties and losses
Over 200 injured 0 arrested	Over 1,000 injured Over 3,000 arrested

The 2020–2021 women's strike protests in Poland, commonly called the Women's Strike (Polish: Strajk Kobiet), were anti-government demonstrations and protests in Poland that began on 22 October 2020, in reaction to a ruling of the Constitutional Tribunal, mainly consisting of judges who were appointed by the ruling Law and Justice (Polish: Prawo i Sprawiedliwość, PiS) dominated United Right, which tightened the law on abortion in Poland. The ruling made almost all cases of abortion illegal, including those cases in which the foetus had a severe and permanent disability, or an incurable and life-threatening disease. All-Poland Women's Strike was charged by the authorities for having illegally organised the protests.

On the evening of 22 October 2020, a wave of mass protests in opposition to the ruling commenced. In the biggest protest in the country since the end of the People's Republic during the revolutions of 1989, protesters opposed the interference of the Roman Catholic Church in public matters, and opposed the domination of all three branches of government by the ruling coalition.