Last month the government decreed that healthcare providers who receive public funds are obliged to offer abortions.
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Conservative marches around Poland oppose government’s abortion and LGBT+ policies
They criticised the government’s plans to liberalise the abortion law, introduce same-sex civil partnerships and expand hate-speech rules.
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From Kabul to Kraków
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