Tens of thousands took to the streets in Poland Nov. 5 to protest the government’s extreme restrictions on the right to abortion. The actions in Warsaw, the capital, and other cities came after it became public that a 30-year-old pregnant…
The Polish government moved Jan. 27 to implement a near-total ban on women’s right to choose to have an abortion, effective immediately. The ban had been adopted three months earlier, but was postponed under the pressure of mass demonstrations of…
Mass protests have taken place in Poland since an Oct. 22 ruling by the country’s Constitutional Tribunal ordered a near-total ban on abortion. Within hours of the decision people were in the streets. Since then daily rallies and marches have…
Thousands joined in a march in Warsaw Oct. 23 to protest a ruling the day before by Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal that bans abortion even in the case “of a severe and irreversible fetal defect or incurable illness that threatens the…
The protest line was long across the street from the parliament building in Warsaw, Poland’s capital, April 15. Most of those lined up were women dressed in black from head to foot. They all wore face masks and stood six…
