Poland could become one of the rare countries where abortion would be reauthorized. The debate remains highly divisive despite the return of pro-European progressives to power.
The Civic Coalition of centrist Prime Minister Donald Tusk intends through this bill to legalize abortion up to the twelfth week of pregnancy. But even within the government's allies, the deputies of the Conservative Party have expressed their reservations about the bill. The result of the vote is far from predictable, but the subject does not only divide the country along the fault line which separates the pro and anti-Europeans, writes Piotr Wojciechowsk, a Polish journalist and journalist-turned-politician. The Polish Diet, the lower house of the Warsaw Parliament, will examine, starting this Thursday afternoon, a bill aimed at liberalizing abortion, he says. The bill would repeal the legal provisions which severely restricted the right to abortion during the years when the conservatives were in power, writes Wozniacki.