
Abortion at the core of a power struggle between Poland and the European Union
On 22 October 2020, the Polish Constitutional Court, very tightly controlled by the conservative party, handed down a ruling prohibiting abortion in the case of foetal malformation which represented, in 2019, 98% of the 1,100 legal abortions recorded in Poland. This decision threw tens of thousands of opponents into the streets in the centre of Warsaw, a mobilization that the Polish capital had not experienced … Continuer de lire Abortion at the core of a power struggle between Poland and the European Union