13 May 2021, 2:05 pm
People dying of cancer aren't for example given enough painkillers "because they can get addicted" even if they are already dying 
. I read about many such cases.isn't poland a catholic nation? many old-line [pre-vatican II] style catholics believe "suffering is good for the soul." i say to the devil with that.
Yes, it's a religious country - at least when it comes to the older generation because youngsters already don't want to attend the religion class at school; it's a noticeable trend - here in this class you are taught ONLY about our major religion and you can learn in it such things as that - for example - gay people can be cured with... a female genital mutilation
(lesbians at least) and that abortion is a horrible sin in EVERY case. Generally the access to abortion in Poland is very, veeeeery limited and is possible only in two cases: the mother's life in threatened or the pregnancy is the result of a crime (rape, incest, sex before age 15, which is the age of consent here). Some organizations even want abortion to become punished by law. But even in such cases one can't get an abortion in the overwhelming majority of cases when the media/Church find out and manage to stick their collective nose into it: one woman got almost completely blind because she was forced to give birth to her third baby, another pregnant woman died - yes, died - and she was even not given any sort of painkillers (as she was told she "should think more about her baby and not about her own ass"), another teenager who got pregnant when she was 14, barely managed to get an abortion because they wanted to force her to give birth, as well as deprive her mother of her parental rights etc. Generally the Polish approach to pregnancy termination (even at a very early stage of pregnancy) boils down to: it's ALWAYS a moral crime, let alone a horrible sin and you are going to get horrible pricks of conscience afterwards - ones that will last until you take your last breath and it doesn't matter if you are a nine year old raped by her father or if the "baby" has an anecephaly etc. - it's a terrible crime Quite recently, some woman was forced to give birth to a baby who had no brain and was generally disfigured - it was a very famous case here in Poland.
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13 May 2021, 2:47 pm
This is what women from Polish message boards indeed often claim, from what I see - that getting pregnant is extremely dangerous in the current socio-political situation in our country.And the approach to getting raped is in turn like that: what were you wearing at this moment - wasn't it by any chance a mini-skirt? If so, it might have provoked the rapist and it is something you can hear even from the police officers Generally, I would describe my homeland as racist and homophobic, as well - recently, some gay man got wounded with a knife on his back by another guy who saw him holding hands with his boyfriend. But on the other hand, my distant cousin did undergo a series of sex reassignment surgeries back in the late nineties and was supported by her - now his - family and she - now he - was, I must mention, from a tiny village. Now he lives in England where people are more tolerant. My first cousin who married her wife in France where gay marriages are allowed and legal in turn, wanted to live with her beloved one in that country, but she couldn't learn French, so they came back to Poland and moved in Warsaw, our capital city, instead.
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13 May 2021, 2:52 pm
13 May 2021, 3:07 pm
Generally Poles, from what I noticed, aren't fond of things out of the widely understood norm. For example, baby names - here there are only like 400 major names that are in use and if someone decides to give their child an unusual name, they are accused of thinking they are someone better than the regular crowd, because a "normal" name is not good enough for them. I can think of only like 4 really rare names whose owners I ever met in my life. And, oh, my former kindergarten friend gave her babies very unusual names; one of them is Scully, in honour of the character from the X-Files 
13 May 2021, 3:54 pm
People dying of cancer aren't for example given enough painkillers "because they can get addicted" even if they are already dying . I read about many such cases.isn't poland a catholic nation? many old-line [pre-vatican II] style catholics believe "suffering is good for the soul." i say to the devil with that.
Y'all's conversation is bringing to mind the quantity of related reading here,
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13 May 2021, 4:02 pm
^^^thank you for that link, i will peruse it now. 
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19 May 2021, 10:27 am
Today in turn, I got a sudden diarrhoea attack
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