Polish lawmakers voted Friday to move forward with several bills aimed at reforming the Catholic country's abortion laws, including two that would lift the near-total ban on abortion that currently exists in the EU country.Abortion rights activists react after Poland's parliament voted to continue work on proposals to liberalize Poland's strict abortion law in Warsaw on Friday.
Reproductive rights advocates say that even in such cases, doctors and hospitals turn away women, fearing legal consequences for themselves or citing their moral objections.According to Health Ministry statistics, 161 abortions were performed in hospitals in 2022 in the country of 37 million people. The party of centrist Prime Minister Donald Tusk is seeking to change the law to allow women to terminate pregnancies up to the 12th week of pregnancy.
Tusk said Poland still probably has a long way to go to liberalize the law but welcomed Friday's votes as a move in the right direction. He said he hoped the country would ultimately end up with a law that gives women the feeling that they are not "an object of attack, contempt or disregard."Tusk is supported on the issue by Lewica , an alliance of left-leaning parties that is part of his governing coalition.
Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)
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