Posted on 02/09/2021 6:13:44 PM PST by marshmallow
WARSAW, Poland — Most European Parliament lawmakers on Tuesday lashed out at Poland’s near-total abortion ban Tuesday, with several lawmakers arguing it was a fundamental violation of women’s rights.
Even though some praised authorities in Warsaw for what they called a defense of Christian values and human life, many in the major political groups were critical of the measure in the staunchly Roman Catholic nation.
EU equality Commissioner Helena Dalli acknowledged that the EU has no legal control over how member states regulate abortion, but she said she viewed the abortion ruling as a sign of the deterioration of sexual and reproductive rights of women in the central European nation.
The debate follows a constitutional court ruling in Poland that resulted in an almost total ban on abortion that took effect in late January.
Poland already had one of Europe’s most restrictive laws, allowing abortion only in the case of crime — rape or incest; a threat to the woman’s life or health; and fetal abnormalities.
The court ruled that abortion due to fetal abnormalities — even in the case of fetuses so badly damaged they would die at birth — is not constitutional.
Members of Poland’s ruling Law and Justice party, which is aligned with the Roman Catholic Church, had sought the new restriction. They argued that it was partly a way to prevent the abortion of fetuses with Down syndrome, which had made up a significant share of the legal abortions in Poland until then.
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None of the EU’s business. Poland should leave if they try to punish them for protecting children.
Is Saint Pope John Paul watching over Poland?
Instead of Banning Abortion....
Poland should just tax it at 5,000,000%
I mean the EU LOVES taxes....
If you tax something high enough you kill it!
It’s not a ban if it is a TAX!!!
When the EU complains about the “Abortion Tax” being too high, then just laugh in Slavic!
Poland is the of the few last bastions of light.
They are fighting against Euro-globalist socialism
Russian communism /Neo-Russian globalist communism
Islamic fascism via by Euro globalist elitism.
Well, it would be like Texas leaving the union.
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