“The situation in Poland constitutes gender-based violence against women and may rise to the level of torture or cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment,” said CEDAW.

“The situation in Poland constitutes gender-based violence against women and may rise to the level of torture or cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment,” said CEDAW.
“I apologise that it is all I can do at the moment,” he added.
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And the majority of those are likely to have taken place in the 27 days before the new rules came into force in late January.
“I say this as a Christian…Can you vote for lies, theft, contempt and hatred?” Tusk asked PiS supporters.
Mass protests against Poland’s near-total abortion ban sometimes targeted the Catholic church.
The proposed law would have allowed abortion on demand up to 12 weeks of pregnancy.
Anna Gmiterek-Zabłocka, TOK FM
Activists help women obtain abortion pills but conservatives want the law tightened.
“Tolerance must take root not only in the law, but in our heads and hearts,” said the opposition leader.
The health ministry insists the move only expands the current system in accordance with European Commission guidelines.
Soldiers fight with weapons, and ours is the rosary,” said the provincial superior of the Order of the Knights of John Paul II.
Ordo Iuris is concerned some refugees may receive an abortion without proving that the pregnancy resulted from rape.
Justyna Wydrzyńska provided abortion pills to a woman seeking to terminate her pregnancy.
Poland is the only country categorised as having “exceptionally poor” contraception policies.
Agnieszka had to carry a dead foetus for over a week while doctors waited to see what happened to its twin, which then also died.