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Protesters against tightening Polish abortion law in Warsaw
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The Polish national conservative ruling party PiS lost a massive amount in polls after the Constitutional Court paved the way for tightening abortion law.
According to a survey commissioned by the daily newspaper "Dziennik Gazeta Prawna" and the broadcaster "RMF FM" and published on Monday, PiS received 30.9 percent approval nationwide.
Two weeks ago the value was 40.5 percent.
A survey on behalf of the left-wing liberal "Gazeta Wyborcza" also came to the result that approval for PiS has slumped massively.
In the current survey, the liberal-conservative citizen coalition (KO) improved its poll results by two percentage points to 25.3 percent.
In addition, approval for the new center movement Poland 2050 rose from 9.3 percent to 14.7 percent. 1000 working Poles were interviewed in the telephone survey.
In a further survey on behalf of the newspaper "Rzeczpospolita", 70 percent of those questioned spoke out in favor of the resignation of PiS boss and Vice-Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski.
According to many experts and commentators, the ruling party's plan to tighten the already very restrictive abortion legislation goes back directly to Kaczynski.
In a controversial ruling at the end of October, the Constitutional Court in Warsaw declared invalid a law that had been in force for years that allowed abortions of seriously malformed fetuses.
PiS now wants to introduce a reform of abortion law into parliament.
According to this, termination of pregnancy should only be permitted if the mother's life is in danger or the pregnancy is the result of incest or rape.
100,000 people demonstrated in Warsaw
There have been mass protests across Poland against the project for more than a week.
Last Friday alone, 100,000 men and women took to the streets in Warsaw.
Women's rights groups have also announced demonstrations for this Monday.
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In Warsaw on Friday 100,000 people demonstrated against the tightening of the abortion law
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According to official statistics, fewer than 2,000 abortions are performed in Poland each year.
Women's rights organizations estimate that around 200,000 more Polish women each year have illegal abortions or go abroad for it.
According to experts, the planned tightening of abortion law amounts to a practical ban on abortion in Poland.
They therefore fear an increase in illegal abortions.
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