Poland’s parliament voiced it support for liberalizing the country’s near-total abortion ban after most lawmakers voted on Friday in favour of having four bills considered by a special committee. Poland, a predominantly Catholic country, has some of the most restrictive abortion regulations in Europe, and these were tightened even further in 2020 by the Constitutional Court under the previous nationalist conservative PiS government. Polish women may only have abortions if they become pregnant through rape or incest, or if their lives are at risk. Women may not have abortions in the case of sev…