Abortion Dream Team (, ADT) is an

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group in

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. Headquartered in

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, ADT was founded in October 2016. Volunteers with the group accept questions from women seeking abortion, and conduct workshops about how to administer

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and

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, a combination of drugs used in

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History

ADT is part of an abortion underground that has existed since 1993, when the

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passed a law greatly restricting abortion at the request of the Polish Catholic Church. The organization takes its name from the

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, nicknamed "the Dream Team," because the founders of ADT viewed themselves as among the most talented people in the field of reproductive rights. It was founded by four women: Natalia Broniarczyk, Kinga Jelińska, Karolina Więckiewicz, and

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 info ...

. ADT cofounder Justyna Wydrzyńska was charged with a crime in 2022 for shipping abortion pills to a pregnant woman in an abusive relationship who was begging for the pills. Wydrzyńska faced a possible a three-year prison sentence for helping with abortion. She was the first activist to be charged under the law, and was convicted in March 2023 and sentenced to eight months of community service. The American organization Shout Your Abortion considers ADT a sister organization. After a 2022 leaked draft opinion that would overturn the American court decision ''

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'', Kinga Jelińska of ADT observed that the legal status of abortion in the US was coming to resemble Poland. On March 8, 2025, the members of the Abortion Dream Team opened AboTak, the first abortion center in Poland. It is located at Wiejska Street 9, opposite to the

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. Justyna Wydrzyńska stated that the location was chosen on purpose to "remind politicians working just across the street about the abortion laws issue in Poland". Since the day the clinic opened,

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have been protesting outside. On April 25, unknown perpetrators threw

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at the entrance to the clinic.

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