Protesters in Poland continue to demonstrate following an Oct. 22 constitutional court ruling banning abortions because of congenital defects.
The demonstrations have brought thousands of people to the streets of hundreds of towns in recent weeks. The protests are part of what has evolved into Poland’s largest protest movement since communism fell in the country 30 years ago.
Poland already had one of Europe’s most restrictive abortion laws, negotiated in the early 1990s between political and Catholic church leaders. That 27-year-old law allowed abortions only in the cases of fetal defects, risk to a woman’s health and incest or rape.
Amid the protests, the government has not implemented the court ruling.
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