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By Wojciech Kosc in Warsaw Poland’s ruling coalition sent its four competing proposals to ease the country’s strict abortion laws to undergo further work in the parliament on April 12. It is the first time in nearly 30 years that parliament has not ditched an attempt at changing the status quo immediately in the first reading. Each proposal went through comfortably, gathering between 222 and 244 votes in the 460-seat Sejm, the lower house of the Polish parliament. “This is a historic day. I hope that … we will be able to take it a step further now,” Anna-Maria Zukowska, an MP for the Left, sai…

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