Poland’s government put into effect on Wednesday a constitutional court decision banning terminations of pregnancies with fetal defects, three months after the court ruled that the abortion of congenitally damaged fetuses is unconstitutional.
The constitutional court of Poland, a deeply Catholic country, issued on Wednesday a justification of a controversial October 2020 ruling that bans abortions in cases of fetuses with congenital defects, even ones so severe that there is no chance of survival upon birth. The government then published the court’s ruling in a government journal of laws. Those steps were the formal prerequisites required for the new law to enter into force.
