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The Polish parliament is scheduled to debate the liberalization of the country’s abortion law on Thursday afternoon. During his election campaign, Prime Minister Donald Tusk promised to strengthen women’s rights and facilitate access to abortion. The country’s current law is one of the strictest in the European Union. However, there is disagreement in Tusk’s centre-left coalition about the extent to which abortion law should be liberalized. In 2020, the Constitutional Court tightened Poland’s strict abortion law even further under the then conservative nationalist Law and Justice (PiS) party g…

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