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1 Bill Gates, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: the Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need (New York: Doubleday, 2020), 198. 2 “Mortality Analyses,” coronavirus.jhu.edu, Johns Hopkins University & Medicine, April 7, 2021, https:// coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality. 3 Nathaniel Parish Flannery, “Why Are So Many People Dying Of Covid-19 In Mexico?,” Forbes, Forbes Magazine, September 3, 2020, https://www. forbes.com/sites/nathanielparishflannery/2020/09/03/ why-are-so-many-people-dying-of-covid-19-inmexico/?sh=3c95afe318e7. 4 Chris Mooney, “The People Who’ll Be Most Hurt by Climate Swings Did the Least to Cause Them, Study Says,” The Washington Post, WP Company, April 29, 2019, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energyenvironment/wp/2018/05/02/scientists-just-showed-
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why-climate-change-is-enormously-unfair/. 5 Bill Gates, 30. 6 “Plan for Climate Change and Environmental Justice: Joe Biden,” Joe Biden for President: Official Campaign Website, Democratic National Committee, October 29, 2020, https://joebiden.com/climate-plan/. 7 Bill Gates, 84-97. 8 “COVID-19 Map,” coronavirus.jhu.edu, Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center, April 7, 2021, https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html. 9 Bill Gates, 31. 10 Blaine Friedlander, “Rising Seas Could Result in 2 Billion Refugees by 2100,” Cornell Chronicle, Cornell University, June 19, 2017, https://news.cornell.edu/ stories/2017/06/rising-seas-could-result-2-billionrefugees-2100.
Abortion in Poland
By Eliana Pasternak and Rebecca Miller Among the many crises currently ravaging the world, oppressive policies on abortion stifle womens’ voices. One of these overlooked crises revolves around abortion issues in Poland. The latest in a series of injustices committed against Polish women is the draconian abortian ban recently passed by Poland’s right-wing Law and Justice Party (PiS), causing mass protests and general outrage against what is clearly an attack on women’s already diminished rights.
many benefits on paper, including up to three years of maternity leave, free daycare, and leave to take care of their sick children. Following the fall of communism, state-financed childcare ended and it became harder for women to find jobs.1 In 1992, the average wage gap between men and women was 25%. 75% of Polish men and 60% of Polish women believed the women’s place was at home cooking, cleaning, and raising children.2 The early 2000s marked a time of hopefulness for the women’s rights While Poland used to have more liberal movement in Poland. The 2001 elections had 20% of Parliament, more policies on women’s rights, it has a tumultuous women making up 3 than ever before. But recent events prove that history of institutionalized sexism and has the battle is far from over. Because Poland long been one of the worst countries when it comes to women’s rights, despite brief periods is a staunchly Catholic country, abortion has always been taboo. The fight over outlawing of liberal gains on the issue. Interestingly, the communist era was a time of improvement for abortion has been long-fought. The PiS tried to implement abortion bans in 2016 and 2018, but women in Poland. Emancipation of women 4 was a communist slogan, and women received backed off after protests ensued. However, they
