Justyna Wydrzyńska

Justyna Wydrzyńska is a Polish abortion-rights activist. She is the first abortion-rights activist in Europe to be convicted of aiding a woman to get an abortion.

Activism Wydrzyńska launched Kobiety w Sieci, an online website providing information about self-induced medical abortions, after she had her own induced abortion in 2006.

In 2023, Wydrzyńska was shortlisted, alongside two other abortion rights activists, for the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought.

Arrest and trial

In November 2021, Wydrzyńska was arrested after sending abortion pills to a pregnant woman through the mail in 2020.

In March 2023, Wydrzyńska was convicted with abetting an abortion. She was sentenced to 8 months of community service. Human Rights Watch, the International Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, the International Planned Parenthood Federation, and the United Nations.

In February 2025, the Warsaw Court of Appeals overturned Wydrzyńska's conviction and ordered she be given a retrial, citing concerns of judicial independence in the original trial.

Personal life Wydrzyńska was initially a chemist.

As of 2020, she was living in the Polish town of Przasnysz.