They say desperate times call for desperate measures. Yet is this concept applicable in law? Women protesting against the unconstitutional abortion ban in Poland found out the hard way. On October 22, 2020, women in Poland were stripped of their rights to abortion. According to the new amendment to the Parliamentary Act on Family Planning, the Protection of Human Feti, and the Conditions Permitting the Termination of Pregnancy of January 7, 1993, the procedure is also penalized when carried out in accord with medical recommendations on embryo-pathological premises. [1]

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