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In Poland, the abortion battle resumes

2020-10-25T18:17:46.139Z


The demonstrations follow one another since the Constitutional Court close to the conservatives further limited the terminations of pregnancy.


In Warsaw

Tens of thousands of Poles have taken to the streets all over Poland every day since Thursday, and this until late at night to denounce a judgment of the Constitutional Tribunal hardening the right to abortion.

"

We are just incubators for the PiS government

," protests Zuzanna Naprus, who came to demonstrate before the said Tribunal on Saturday.

Women's rights are constantly violated: we make it illegal to abort severely damaged fetuses.

And the trauma caused by such a birth, who cares?

», Continues this 28-year-old Warsaw woman, outraged by the decision.

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In this country where the government is very attentive to the most conservative sections of the Catholic Church, access to abortion is one of the most restrictive in Europe.

And it was with tear gas that some rallies in front of the residence of Jaroslaw Kaczynski, leader of the ruling ultraconservative party (PiS), were dispersed.

Thursday afternoon,

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Source: lefigaro

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