Award for Poland abortion woman

A Polish court has awarded $11,000 (7,400 euros) in damages to a woman likened to a child killer by a Catholic magazine for wanting an abortion
25.09.09, Adam Easton, for BBC NEWS (UK). Alicja Tysiac had been warned by doctors when she became pregnant that she could go blind if she had her baby. But she was denied an abortion - illegal in most cases in Poland - and her eyesight subsequently deteriorated. The court in Katowice, southern Poland, ruled that the Catholic magazine, Gosc Niedzielny, had drawn clear parallels between Ms Tysiac's desire to have an abortion and the actions of Nazi war criminals. The judge said it had shown "contempt, hostility and malice" towards the 38-year-old woman. The judge said Catholics have the right to express their disapproval of abortion and even call it murder, but they did not have the right to vilify individuals.