Current Debate
Abortion law is one of the most important and controversial topics in current Polish politics, with leftist parties strongly pro-choice rights, moderate parties defending current legislation, and right-wing parties predominantly pro-life. The question of an anti-abortion constitutional amendment was one of the reasons for the split in the Law and Justice (PiS) and the creation of Prawica Rzeczypospolitej, led by Marek Jurek. These same circles of society named the abortion debate a substitute topic (temat zastępczy).
In June 2011, Polish anti-abortion NGOs collected over 500,000 signatures for a proposed bill to ban abortion in Poland altogether. The bill, while rejected by a majority of the MPs, got enough support to be send to a Sejm committee in order to be subject to further amendments. The move was criticized by two right-wing opposition parties, the Law and Justice and Poland Comes First, which expressed their support for the bill. The left-wing Democratic Left Alliance pursues a pro-choice policy and against the bill. The ruling Civic Platform, while considering itself in favor of the current legislation on abortion in Poland, was divided in the views on the matter; more than 60 MPs of the party voted in favour of the bill.
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