Polish president halts law easing access to ‘morning-after’ pill

Polish president Andrzej Duda has opposed a law that would have made it possible for people over 15 to buy emergency contraceptive pills. Photograph: Dominika Zarzycka/NurPhoto via Getty Imageson Friday vetoed a bill to ease women’s access to the “morning-after” contraceptive pill, sparking outrage among left-wing and liberal politicians.

Majority Catholic Poland is one of only two countries in the 27-nation European Union where women require a prescription to buy emergency contraceptive pills. It added, however, that he would be open to making the morning-after pill available without prescription to adult women.

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