In the 21st century Poland’s ruling party pushes for total abortion ban and criminalisation of contraceptives and sexual education

The PES condemns yet another attempt by the Law and Justice Party (PiS) to roll back women’s rights in Poland. We strongly oppose the way PiS leader Jarosław Kaczyński is using the emergency situation to impose these measures.

In the shadow of the virus crisis the Polish parliament voted today to send legislation to restrict abortion and sexual education to the next stage – further consideration by a parliamentary committee. The parliamentary group of the Left was leading the fight for the legislation to be rejected, but was outnumbered.

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