Polish president makes small change to new abortion bill
Trying to quell ongoing protests, abortion due to ‘lethal’ foetal abnormalities may be allowed
30 October 2020 - 17:29
Warsaw — Poland’s president has said he would propose a bill reintroducing the possibility of terminating a pregnancy due to foetal abnormalities, though only limited to “lethal” defects, in a bid to calm mass protests against a near-total ban on abortion.
Last week, the Polish constitutional court outlawed abortions due to foetal defects — ending the most common of the few legal grounds left for abortion in Poland and setting the country further apart from the European mainstream...
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