Women's health and lives are paramount. Doctors and hospitals must comply with the law that applies to the termination of pregnancy. Accordingly, Prime Minister Donald Tusk has announced specific decisions that will change the practice of abortion procedures. These include consequences for hospitals for refusing legitimate abortions.
The order issued by the Constitutional Court, chaired by Julia Przyłębska, took away the possibility for women to terminate their pregnancies in cases of severe and irreversible fetal disability or an incurable disease that threatens the life of the fetus.
- We must and will change the practice of proceedings overnight so that, despite the unsatisfactory state of the law, this judgment by Julia Przyłębska does not weigh on the lives and safety of Polish women," Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced.
He stressed that the 2020 judgment has not changed the law in Poland. There are three grounds for which a pregnancy can be legally terminated:
- If the preg...
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