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The court’s ruling opens up further tightening of the country’s abortion legislation, which is already one of the strictest in the world.
Now national conservatives can Government Law and Justice Party (PIS) presents a bill to Parliament. And once introduced, abortion will only be allowed if the mother has been raped, subjected to incest or if her health and life are threatened.
Thursday’s court ruling has come in for heavy criticism.
Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Dunja Mijatovic wrote on Twitter that “it means abortions in secret or abroad for those who can afford it and even greater trials for everyone else.”
Amnesty International, the Center for Reproductive Rights and Human Rights Watch condemn the verdict in a joint statement.
And according to Poland before Prime Minister Donald Tusk is “politically evil” in raising the abortion issue now.
“Including the issue of abortion and a pseudo court ruling amid a violent pandemic is more than cynical,” he wrote on Twitter.
President Andrzej Duda, close to the PIS, has previously said that as soon as parliament passes a bill, he will sign it.
– The president’s views on the issue are well known and have not changed, says a spokesperson for Duda according to the Polish news agency PAP.
The Archbishop of Poznan, Stanislaw Gadecki, says he really welcomed the ruling.
Deeply conservative values have played an increasingly important role in Polish public life. The PIS came to power five years ago. Then the party went to the polls to defend what it considers to be the traditional Catholic character of the country.
