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Polish President Andrzej Duda has vetoed a law designed to facilitate access to emergency contraceptives, citing “the will to respect constitutional rights and health protection of children,” his office said on Friday. Both chambers of parliament had adopted the amendment to the pharmaceutical act provided for women and girls from the age of 15 to be able to obtain the morning-after pill without a prescription in future. Duda is from the nationalist Law and Justice Party (PiS) which was ousted in the last election by a centrist coalition led by former European Council President Donald Tusk in …

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