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Thousands of Polish citizens today he took to the streets to protest against the almost total ban on abortion in the EU Member State. On the third day of protests, some of the dissatisfied threatened to take even more radical measures in the coming days, reports AFP.
On Thursday, Poland’s Constitutional Court ruled that existing law allows miscarriage of deformed embryos is “incompatible” with the constitution. The decision immediately sparked outrage from human rights groups inside and outside the Catholic country, which has a population of 38 million.
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Some of the participants in the next demo he chanted “Freedom, equality, women’s rights”, and others carried slogans like “Shame!” and “War Against Women”.
Opponents of the ruling convocation organize a referendum on the right to abort deformed embryos. Some disgruntled citizens announced that they would block roads in the country on Monday.
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On Friday night, thousands of protesters, mostly young people, gathered in front of Jaroslav Kaczynski’s house in Warsaw. Kaczynski is the real leader in Poland. He heads the ruling Law and Justice Party. Riot control forces prevented the protesters from approaching the politician’s house.
The court decision means that Abortion will only be allowed in cases of rape, incest and if there is a threat to the woman’s life.
In Poland, women protesting the abortion ban are persecuted with tear gas and by force.
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In Poland there are fewer than 2,000 legal abortions each year. Most are due to deformities of the fetus.
But women’s rights organizations have calculated that up to 200,000 abortions are performed illegally or abroad each year.
The demonstrations are at odds with the government’s ban on public gatherings as part of the measures to combat the coronavirus.
Earlier today it was clear that President Andrzej Duda has a coronavirus, and health authorities reported 13,628 infected in the last 24 hours, as well as a record number of deaths: 179 people.
Today separately, the police were confronted with protesting against new restrictions in the fight against coronavirus.
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