Abortion rights protests block city streets across Poland

Poland's leaders defend abortion ruling, condemn protests

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s conservative leaders have defended the tightening of the country’s strict abortion law and condemned massive nationwide protests led by women’s rights activists. Tuesday was the sixth day of massive nationwide protests against a ruling Thursday by the country’s top court that declared abortions due to fetal congenital defects unconstitutional. The leaders said the protests were against a pandemic-era ban on gatheri…

PiS leader Kaczyński calls on Poles to defend churches "at all costs"

Poland's ruling party leader Jarosław Kaczyński insisted on Tuesday that a court ruling further restricting abortion could not be reversed, threatening action against mass protests that have spread across Poland since the decision last Thursday.

Polish PM defends new abortion law as women take to streets

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki on Tuesday defended last week’s tightening of abortion laws as protests against the move continued across the country.“The situations that we are seeing in the streets and which amount to acts of aggression, vandalism … are absolutely inadmissible and should not be taking place at all,” Morawiecki, of the right-wing Law and Justice Party (PiS), said Tuesday morning, adding that people should not be gather…

Angry women block traffic across Poland over abortion ban

WARSAW, Poland — Women’s rights activists and many thousands of supporters held a fifth day of protests across Poland on Monday, defying pandemic restrictions to express their fury at a top court decision that tightens the predominantly Catholic nati

'This is war': opposition politicians in Poland take abortion protests to parliament – video

Opposition politicians brought protests over a near-total ban on abortion in Poland to the floor of parliament.Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, from the opposition Lewica (Left) party, led a protest of other opposition members wearing masks and T-shirts bearing the lightning bolt symbol of the 'Women's Strike' movement, which has been leading nationwide protests on the abortion ban.They held up placards with slogans such as 'this is war' and 'legalise …

Abortion-rights and anti-abortion protesters clash in Poland following strict new laws

Activists expressed their fury at a top court decision to tighten already strict abortion laws in the predominantly Catholic nation.