| Series Title | EurActiv |
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| Series Details | 22.09.16 |
| Publication Date | 22/09/2016 |
| Content Type | News |
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Poland's parliament (Sejm) resumed discussion on 22 September 2016 its debate on different initiatives regarding either to liberalise or further tighten Poland's abortion law. The existing law is already one of the strictest in Europe. While the governing rightwing Law and Justice (PiS) party, which controls parliament, generally favoured banning abortion, its leaders were well aware that most Poles supported existing legislation. The pro-Choice proposals were rejected by the Sejm on the 23 September 2016, and it passed a bill stipulating jail sentences for women who terminated a pregnancy. Polish pro-choice activists called on all Polish women to strike on 3 October 2016 in protest at the planned abortion ban. By the 5 October 2016 it appeared that the ruling Law and Justice Party had backed down and would now vote against the bill which it had supported only a week earlier. The proposal was rejected in parliament on the following day. Attempts to make Poland’s stringent sexual and reproductive health laws still more restrictive led to a heated debate in the European Parliament on the 5 October 2016. Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) focused on the propsed national bill to ban all abortions, but the European Parliament’s legal right to debate the topic was also contested. |
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| Source Link | http://www.euractiv.com/section/health-consumers/news/battle-over-abortion-law-heats-up-in-catholic-poland/ |
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| Countries / Regions | Poland |
