Published: 14.07.2022
In a judgment of October 22, 2020, the Constitutional Tribunal ruled that the statutory provision allowing eugenic abortion is inconsistent with the Constitution of the Republic of Poland. The challenged provision concerned the permissibility of terminating a pregnancy, and thus killing a conceived child, in a situation where prenatal tests or other medical reasons indicate a high probability of a severe and irreversible impairment or an incurable disease that threatens the child's life.
The ruling of the Tribunal entered into force on the day of its publication in the Journal of Laws on January 27, 2021, becoming universally binding. Thus, abortion is banned in Poland for eugenic reasons. The judgment is final. Polish law does not know the procedure that would allow for its contestation.
• Amendments to the directive on the rights of victims of crime are currently under consideration in the European Parliament.
The candidate supported last Sunday by all the Right for the second round of the Polish presidential election had promised that he would veto any law that liberalizes abortion. He won with 50.89% of the votes against the left-liberal candidate who had promised to ratify any law liberalizing abortion.
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• The 78th World Health Assembly, the deliberative body of the World Health Organization, begins today in Geneva.
During Holy Week, when we remembered the martyrdom of Jesus, many Poles heard about the innocent death of 9-month-old Felek (such an altered name was given to him by Gazeta Wyborcza journalists). Potassium chloride – a substance used to carry out death sentences – was injected into the heart of the boy who was due to be born any day.
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