Poland’s parliament votes to ease abortion ban but faces likely veto from president

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Poland’s lower house approved bills that would ease parts of the country’s near-total abortion ban, including reducing penalties for people who help women access abortion and allowing terminations in cases of fetal abnormalities. The measures may be vetoed by the nationalist president, while campaigners call for broader legal changes.

Measures would remove some penalties for those helping women access abortion but are ‘small-scale step’, say campaigners Poland’s lower house of parliament has approved two bills aimed at loosening a near-total ban on abortions, in what campaigners have described as a “small-scale step” ahead of protests calling on the government to fulfil its promises to overhaul the country’s laws. The new measures, which are likely to be vetoed by Poland’s nationalist president, would remove some of the criminal penalties for those who help women to access abortion care and allow terminations in cases of foetal abnormalities. Continue reading...