Polish women protest again as ruling party heats up abortion...
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Hundreds of women marched again in Polish cities on Monday to oppose proposals for tight restrictions on abortion after earlier protests effectively scuttled a near-total ban on terminating pregnancies.
They reacted to comments by Jaroslaw Kaczynski, head of the conservative ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party, that even severely deformed foetuses should not be aborted so they could be baptised and properly buried.
Television reports showed hundreds of women dressed in black protesting on the streets of major Polish cities including Katowice, Wroclaw, Poznan, Gdansk, Warsaw and Bialystok.
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“No to degrading and violence against women. No to interference of the Church in politics,” the group declared on its Facebook page that called for another round of protests.
“I do not want Mr Kaczynski and the Church to take decisions about my life,” said Ola, 34, a psychologist marching in the capital Warsaw on Monday.
“I am here after Kaczynski’s comments about giving birth to deformed foetuses,” said Krystyna, 62, a speech therapist, during a protest in Warsaw on Sunday. “I do not want my daughters to be forced to do that.”
