On Sunday, Polish feminist groups took part in the annual Manifa demonstrations to celebrate International Women's Day, which took place earlier last week.
The largest demonstration, which attracted over 3,000 people, took place in Warsaw.
This year's Manifa was mostly directed against the Catholic Church in Poland, reported Rzeczpospolita.
Demonstrators demanded its severance from the state and criticized Catholic doctrine as being hostile to women.
Demanding access to abortion, in vitro fertilization and birth control, and carrying placards saying, “Jobs for women not priests” and “Mothers mean more than dog-collars,” the demonstrators passed from Warsaw's Palace of Culture and Science to the parliament building.
The demonstrators also criticized the Euro 2012 soccer championships, saying, “we've had enough of spending money on one-time events like Euro 2012.”
“We are living in a crisis now and we should save money. So let's all save,” said Elżbieta Korolczuk from the March 8th Women's Agreement group, the main organizer of Manifa.
Janusz Palikot, the head of Palikot's Movement and Wanda Nowicka, MP in Palikot's Movement and deputy speaker of the Sejm, were also in attendance.
The day before the event Palikot's Movement announced the creation of a woman's group, called Women's Movement (Ruch Kobiet).