Poland: Reject Bill to Further Limit Abortion Rights

Expand Women gesture as people gather in an abortion rights campaigners' demonstration to protest against plans for a total ban on abortion in front of the ruling party Law and Justice (PiS) headquarters in Warsaw, Poland, October 3, 2016. © 2016 Reuters/Kacper Pempel/File photo (Warsaw) – Poland’s Parliament should listen to the voices of women across Poland and reject a regressive legislative proposal that would erode reproductive rights, more than 200 human and women’s rights groups from across the globe said in a statement issued today. The Parliament is debating a draft bill entitled…

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