Standing in solidarity with all women for rights over their bodies, and to prioritize pro-choice abortion laws, organizations Haiyya, Asia Safe Abortion Partnership, Love Matters India and Feminism in India strongly condemn the ‘Stop Abortion’ bill discussed in Parliament of Poland amidst the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The Parliament of Poland started discussions on ‘Stop Abortion’ bill on Wednesday 15th April stretched till Thursday 16th April. The parliament on Thursday has sent the bill back to the parliamentary committee for further review, but has not rejected the bill completely, and it has the chance of resurfacing. In the time of COVID-19, where lives are lost and the world is locked down, control over women’s body continues in the midst of a world-wide crisis, whether it is lack of sexual and reproductive health services and access to women in some parts of India, or the draconian abortion law in Poland. As feminist organizations and collectives committed to upholding rights over women’s bodies and choices around it, we strongly condemn the recent abortion law in Poland. We urge all organizations, collectives, individuals all over the world to protest online from home, to become visible to the Poland government that we are watching and such a discriminatory and derogatory law cannot rule over women’s choice over their bodies. According to Krystyna Kacpura, the Executive Director of the Federation for Women and Family Planning (FEDERA), just 1,055 women obtained a legal abortion in Poland in 2016, while illegal abortions numbered up to 150,000. Illegal abortion continues to be a common practice all over the world owing to the legal limitations and socio-cultural barriers. As per the WHO report, those countries that have completely banned or have permitted abortion only to save the mother’s woman’s life or in order to preserve her physical health, show a rate of 1:4, safely performed the abortion. Whereas, those countries that have legalized abortion on broader grounds, nearly 9 out of 10 abortions were performed safely. Hence, putting restrictions and terms for getting an abortion or not giving legal permissions, does not actually reduce the number of abortions restrict laws…