Near-ban on abortion in Poland: "There is an unprecedented mobilization of the young generation"

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“Abortion is a matter of health”, one can read on a parcel card during a demonstration against the almost total ban on abortion, in Krakow on October 23, 2020. Jakub Wlodek / Agencja Gazeta / via REUTERS

By: Fanny Bleichner

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In Poland, anger is brewing and demonstrations have increased since the Constitutional Court decided to limit abortion only to cases of pregnancy resulting from rape and when there is a risk of death for the pregnant woman.

In the event of a fetal malformation, women will no longer be able to abort.

Analysis by Jean-Yves Potel, historian and specialist on Poland.

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Jean-Yves Potel is the author of several articles in the journal

on the new authoritarianism in Poland and

(Editions Circé). 

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