A group of 32 protesters who interrupted a mass in a Polish cathedral with a pro-abortion rights demonstration have been acquitted of disturbance of a religious act.
The majority of Poles, irrespective of their party affiliation or political views, believe that a referendum should be held in Poland in order to amend the current abortion laws, according to a new opinion poll.
The Sejm, the lower house of the Polish parliament, on Tuesday voted down a bill tightening abortion laws on its first reading.
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Law and Justice (PiS), Poland’s socially conservative governing party, will reject a bill tightening the country’s already stringent abortion laws in its first reading in the Sejm, the lower house of parliament, the party's spokesperson said on Thursday.
MPs from Poland's main opposition grouping, Civic Coalition, (KO) want to know which hospitals refused an abortion to an underage girl with intellectual disabilities who became pregnant as a result of rape.
The Polish government will not support any bill that tightens the current restrictions on abortion, a government spokesman has said.
According to the Rzeczpospolita daily, the deaths of a few pregnant women were the effect of an October 2020 Constitutional Tribunal ruling that tightened the abortion law in Poland, and this data will be presented in the European Parliament.
Andrzej Duda, the president, will not sign into law any bill that liberalises Poland's restrictive abortion law, a presidential aide has said.
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