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Poland’s parliament on Thursday will open a long-awaited debate on liberalising abortion laws in the majority Catholic country, with splits in the ruling coalition suggesting an uncertain outcome.Women’s rights were rolled back during the eight-year rule of the previous right-wing Polish government, with the tightening of already strict abortion laws sparking mass rallies nationwide.
Tusk’s party and the Left have pledged to legalise abortion, but the other coalition members are divided.Bills that would grant more reproductive rights have been stuck in parliament for months, prompting frustration and anger among many women and rights groups. And even if parliament approves the reforms, they would still need to be signed into law by President Andrzej Duda, which the conservative Catholic ally of the conservative PiS party in the opposition is unlikely to do.“Bills of similar content have been discussed in the parliament many times over the past 30 years but none of them was ever forwarded for further committee proceedings,” Krystyna Kacpura, head of the Federation for Women and Family Planning, told AFP.
“I will vote against,” the PSL’s Marek Sawicki told TOK FM radio, though he did not say how many of the party’s fellow lawmakers would follow suit.
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