While the Polish Constitutional Court has ruled that abortions due to fetal malformations do not comply with the Constitution, the protest is organized.
Some Poles are worried about the increase in clandestine abortions, in sanitary conditions that put the health of these women at risk.
Thousands of protesters in revolt gathered Friday in large cities in Poland, after the Constitutional Court ruled non-compliant abortions due to fetal malformation.
In this country, where the legislation was already one of the most rigid in Europe, many are worried about the health consequences of this decision: according to Krystyna Kacpura, director of family planning in Poland, women who cannot go home stranger to abort will do so "under dangerous conditions".
"We are afraid for the health and especially for the lives of these women," she said at the microphone of Europe 1.
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Clandestine abortions are indeed legion in Poland, amounting to nearly 200,000 each year.
They can sometimes take place in very poor hygienic conditions.
Krystyna Kacpura points out that the restrictions imply strong inequalities between women in the face of pregnancy termination: "The sanitary conditions in which they will have an abortion depend on their wallet. If they have money, they can go to it. 'stranger and have a safe abortion,' she explains.
Wave of indignation
In Poland now, women can only have an abortion in cases of rape, incest or if the pregnancy poses a risk to their health.
When abortions were allowed for malformation of the fetus, legal abortions were already extremely rare, only just over 1,000 last year.
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These new restrictions spark a wave of indignation.
Groups of women protested in the streets across the country, some being arrested.
In a very Catholic Poland, the latest polls show that only 10% of residents are in favor of further restricting the right to abortion.