More than three years after hundreds of thousands of people poured on to the streets wielding placards that read "the revolution has a uterus" MPs yesterday considered four proposals.
Two of the bills are aimed at legalising abortion up to the 12th week of pregnancy and another is focused on decriminalisation. The fourth, introduced by the conservative Third Way alliance, seeks a return to the strict 1993 laws hammered out between political leaders and the Catholic church, which were tightened in 2020.
MPs are due to vote today on whether to send the bills to a special commission for further study.
"The state can't pretend that abortion doesn't exist - they're being done, always have and always will," Katarzyna Kotula, the equality minister, told parliament.
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