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.
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Andrzej Duda, the president, will not sign into law any bill that liberalises Poland's restrictive abortion law, a presidential aide has said.
Poland has recently recorded a huge drop in abortions, according to statistics published by a Polish newspaper.
The Sejm, the lower house of the Polish parliament, has voted down a citizen's draft law on the safe termination of pregnancy.
The leader of Women’s Strike, the organisation that spearheaded mass abortion protests last year, has presented a bill liberalising abortion laws to the Sejm, the lower house of the Polish parliament.
The Polish government spokesman has said a civil initiative bill liberalising abortion laws stands "no chance" of further processing in parliament.
A second high-profile case of a pregnant woman's death in hospital has raised new concerns about the impact of the strict abortion laws in Poland.
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