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Poland is debating changes to its near-total abortion ban on Thursday, re-opening one of the country’s thorniest social and political debates in an effort to overhaul some of the strictest laws ...
Abortion in Poland is illegal except in cases where the pregnancy is a result of a criminal act or when the woman's life or health is in danger. [1] The last change in the Act on Pregnancy Planning of the Republic of Poland took place on 27 January 2021, when publication of the judgment of the Polish Constitutional Tribunal in the Dziennik Ustaw RP took place.
All-Poland Women's Strike was created as one of the groups organising the protests which took place in September and October 2016 Black Protests against proposed legislation that would have tightened abortion law. [1] The protests brought together 100,000 protesters who marched in 143 villages, towns and cities in Poland. [5]
A red lightning bolt, the prominent symbol of recent protests against a Polish court's decision to effectively put a complete ban on abortion, is projected against a building in Warsaw on Oct. 30 ...
Polish lawmakers backed plans to end the country’s near-total abortion ban on Friday, ... Poland’s current abortion law, introduced by a PiS-backed court in 2020, bans virtually all abortions. ...
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s parliament is finally holding a long-awaited debate on liberalizing the country's strict abortion law. The traditionally Catholic nation has one of the most restrictive laws in Europe — but the reality is that many women terminate pregnancies at home with pills mailed from abroad.
Thousands of people demonstrated across Poland on Wednesday against the country's restrictive abortion law after a woman who was five months pregnant died of sepsis, the latest such death since a ...
October 2020 protests against abortion restrictions in Kraków, Poland. On 22 October 2020, the Constitutional Tribunal, with disputed judges, ruled that abortion in cases of disability or life-limiting illness were unconstitutional, further limiting abortion rights in Poland. The decision was nearly unanimous, with judges ruling 11–2 in ...