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Polish legislators voted on four separate bills on Friday to consider changes to the country’s near-total ban on abortion, a highly controversial issue in the mainly Roman Catholic nation. Poland has some of the most restrictive abortion laws in Europe. Two of the proposals, including one from Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s Civic Platform party, aim to legalise abortion up to the 12th week of pregnancy. ”Today is truly a symbolic day, a breakthrough day, and a day that our daughters and granddaughters will probably remember,” Third Way party member Ewa Schaedler said. ”Something has happened …

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