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The narrow failure to liberalize Poland’s strict abortion laws earlier this month is still provoking unrest in the ruling centrist coalition in Warsaw. Prime Minister Donald Tusk on Tuesday dismissed Waldemar Sługocki, a member of parliament from his Civic Coalition party, as deputy minister for development and technology. Sługocki and two other Civic Coalition lawmakers were either absent or abstained from the abortion vote in the lower house in Warsaw on July 12. The draft law, which would have decriminalized the act of aiding women in abortions, was rejected in a close 218 to 215 vote. The …

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