The PiS leader and deputy prime minister, Jarosław Kaczyński, told people they should “defend churches” from the protesters after some were defaced. Demonstrators holding ‘women’s strike’ placards block a street in Warsaw. Poland already had one of Europe’s most restrictive laws, hammered out in the early 1990s between political and Catholic church leaders whose authority was bolstered by having a Polish pope, John Paul II, at the Vatican. An activist climbed onto a ladder placed upon a van to hang a new street sign over the official one reading Roman Dmowski Roundabout. Senior figures in the country’s powerful Catholic church have spoken out in favour of the constitutional ruling. Poles protest abortion ban in churches and on streets A crowd gathers outside the house of Poland's ruling conservative party leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski in Warsaw, Poland, Friday, Oct. 23, 2020. Poland protests continue over abortion ruling, police violence, Court rules Texas, Louisiana can cut Planned Parenthood funding, Abortions resume in South Dakota after a 7-month halt, Abortion ballot measure results show stark divide, Women begin national strike in Poland over abortion ban, California Privacy/Information We Collect. The prime minister, Mateusz Morawiecki, has called for talks with protesters and opposition MPs, while the PiS-aligned president, Andrzej Duda, suggested a new proposal that would allow abortion in cases of life-threatening birth defects but not for conditions such as Down’s syndrome. At one point, protest participants gathered on a major thoroughfare, causing traffic to back up. Copyright © 2020 CBS Interactive Inc. All rights reserved. The decision by the country’s constitutional tribunal promised to further tighten Poland’s abortion laws, which were already some of the strictest in Europe. Police blocked protesters from marching in Poland's capital as demonstrations took place across the country against an attempt to restrict abortion rights and recent police violence. Boston medical conference led to 300,000 COVID-19 cases, Biden facing pressure to pick Rep. Deb Haaland as Interior Secretary, Biden to nominate Tai for trade rep and McDonough for veterans affairs, Second gentleman to teach entertainment law at Georgetown, Biden introduces his pick to lead Defense Department, NAACP calls on Biden to appoint a racial equity adviser, Biden to nominate Marcia Fudge to lead HUD, Biden vows to distribute 100 million vaccine doses within first 100 days. Protesters targeted Catholic churches across Poland on Sunday in the fourth straight day of upheaval against a near-total ban on abortion in the EU country. They shouted pro-choice and anti-PiS slogans. The tribunal ruled that terminations should be illegal even in cases where a foetus is diagnosed with a serious and irreversible birth defect. Marshal for "uninformed" statement on shooting. Agencja Gazeta / Reuters Demonstrators hold a protest against a ruling by Poland's Constitutional Tribunal that imposes a near-total ban on abortion, at a cathedral in Poznan, Poland October 25, 2020. Activists seek to keep up the pressure while also demanding a more liberal abortion law and the resignation of the country's right-wing government. The demonstrations are part of what has evolved into Poland's largest protest movement since communism fell in the country 30 years ago. ", A mother with two teenage daughters in Warsaw held a sign saying, "I am here for my daughters.". Protesters have disrupted church services across Poland in a series of demonstrations following a near-total ban on abortion, announced last week. FILE PHOTO: People take part in a protest organized by the Strajk Kobiet (Women's Strike) movement, following a court ruling imposing a near-total abortion ban, in Warsaw, Poland, November 18, 2020. As drivers honked, the protesters shouted: "We are sorry for the inconvenience, we have a government to overthrow.". People demonstrate against police violence and an attempted restriction on abortion rights in Warsaw Poland, Saturday, Nov. 28, 2020. Campaigners are calling for anti-abortion groups to be banned from protesting outside abortion clinics in Scotland.The move to create 150-metre buffer zones around clinics is seen as a way of The demonstrators marched through downtown Warsaw to the house of Poland's ruling party leader in what women's rights activists planned as the largest demonstration in nine days of protests. Members of a far-right organization and police remove women from a church where they were protesting church support for tightening Poland's already restrictive abortion law in Warsaw, Poland, Sunday, Oct. 25, 2020. That 27-year-old law allows abortions only in the cases of fetal defects, risk to a woman's health and incest or rape. In 2016, the government was forced by mass street protests, which inspired movements of women internationally, to back down from its attempt, using the Catholic Church, to criminalise abortion. Officers at one point used tear gas against an opposition lawmaker, Barbara Nowacka, who had been intervening "in defense of peacefully protesting women," Borys Budka, the head of Poland's centrist Civic Platform party, said. Supporters of the new legislation held counterprotests and Catholic Masses to express alignment with the abortion ban. All Rights Reserved. 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