Draft law highlighted deep divisions in Donald Tusk’s ruling coalition
Polish prime minister Donald Tusk: one of his party’s pre-election promises was to grant access to abortion during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy. Photograph: Sergei Gapon/AFP via Getty Images’s lower house rejected a Bill on Friday that sought to scrap penalties for people who help someone to get an abortion, highlighting deep divisions in the ruling coalition over easing one of Europe’s most restrictive abortion laws.
Reproductive rights and healthcare are high on the agenda in Poland, which under the previous nationalist government introduced a near-total ban on abortion in 2021.’s broad coalition encompassing the moderate left and right has reinstated public funding for in-vitro fertilisation and voted to change rules on accessing emergency contraception.
Under the current law, abortion is only legal in cases involving rape or incest, or when a woman's health or life is at risk. It was rejected by almost half of the lawmakers belonging to the Christian Democratic Third Way party, which forms part of the government, as well as members of the opposition Law and Justice and Confederation parties.“Doctors will still be afraid to perform abortions, and friends can be sent to prison for helping their friend. Women will continue to fear for their health and lives,” deputy family minister Aleksandra Gajewska wrote on X.
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