An appeals court in Poland says that it will rule next month in the case of a women’s rights activist convicted in 2023 of providing another woman with abortion pills.

Poland is debating changes to its near-total abortion ban on Thursday, re-opening one of the country’s thorniest social and political debates in an effort to overhaul some of the strictest laws ...

Monica Costa Riba, Amnesty International's Women's Rights Senior Campaigner, condemned on Thursday the verdict in the case of Justyna Vydrinska, a human rights activist convicted of helping a woman ...

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Parliamentary work on relaxing Poland's restrictive abortion laws will resume only after the presidential election scheduled for May, a senior ...

She said she has low expectations for dramatic changes to Poland’s abortion policies before the 2025 presidential election, when Duda’s term is up. “As an activist, I’m happy to see ...

Supporters of women's rights activist Justyna Wydrzynska before a Warsaw court where Wydrzynska's appeal was being heard of a 2023 conviction for providing abortion pills to another woman, before the ...

Thousands of people have blocked roads across Poland on the fifth consecutive day of protests against a court's near-total ban on abortion. In the capital Warsaw, protesters blocked the main ...

Poland’s abortion laws are among the strictest in Europe - it is only allowed in cases of rape or incest, if the mother’s life is at risk, or if the foetus is seriously compromised.

As US President Donald Trump takes office following a campaign where access to abortion was a central theme, Europe also ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Poland’s parliament is finally holding a long-awaited debate on liberalizing the country’s strict ...