Polish President Vetoes Move To Restore Access To Emergency Contraception

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Poland's conservative President Andrzej Duda on Friday vetoed a proposal to restore prescription-free emergency contraception which was reversed by the previous nationalist government.

In this file photo taken on July 6, 2022 Plan-B, emergency contraceptive, on the self in a drug store in Annapolis, Maryland.

Poland saw a rollback of women’s reproductive rights during the right-wing Law and Justice party’s eight-year rule, with access tightened to emergency contraception, made prescription-only in 2017. Duda, a staunch ally of the PiS and a devout Catholic, “could not accept” the bill as it enabled access to the contraceptive pill “without medical supervision and bypassing the role and responsibility of parents”, the statement said.

 

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