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By Wojciech Kosc in Warsaw Poland’s ruling majority of centrists, conservatives and leftwingers, headed by Prime Minister Donald Tusk, failed to pass a law on July 12 aimed at easing some of the country’s strict anti-abortion regulations. Loosening Poland’s draconian abortion laws — which result in almost no legally possible terminations, also impacting legitimate cases where doctors do nothing for fear of being prosecuted — was one of the key pledges by Tusk in the run-up to the election in October 2023. But the four-party coalition Tusk is leading is made up of the strongly conservative Poli…

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