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Poland Abortion Ruling Sparks One of Country’s Largest Protests in Years - The Wall Street Journal

Poland Abortion Ruling Sparks One of Country’s Largest Protests in Years - The Wall Street Journal

Poland Abortion Ruling Sparks One of Country’s Largest Protests in Years - The Wall Street Journal
Oct 30, 2020 1 min, 14 secs

WARSAW—Tens of thousands of demonstrators marched through Warsaw on Friday protesting a ruling by a top court earlier this month that made one of Europe’s strictest abortion laws even tighter.

Last week, Poland’s constitutional court, its top tribunal, tightened those laws when it struck down the exemption allowing women to terminate a pregnancy in the case of fetal abnormality.

In 2016, the party discussed legislation that would have banned the procedure in all cases, but dropped it after tens of thousands of women dressed in black marched through central Warsaw.

In opinion surveys, most Poles say abortion should be illegal except in rare circumstances. Yet most Poles also oppose the court’s decision to outlaw abortion in the case of fetal abnormalities, according to a recent poll.

By contrast, 11% said abortion should be illegal in every circumstance, and 22% think it should be legal during the first trimester.

Since the ruling, Warsaw has seen nightly protests by abortion-rights demonstrators.

“I know that there are many honest women, mothers who are very concerned about this situation and this ruling and its possible consequences,” Mr.

“We have to show that we can fight and are not some group of docile women who will tolerate all this,” said Laura Starzomska, 21, an economics student who said she had attended smaller protests every night over the previous four days.

With bars and universities closed, demonstrators have held smaller marches each day this week, with thousands of mostly young people taking to the streets.

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