Today, on October 22, 2020, the Polish Constitutional Tribunal issued a ruling that the provision in the act allowing "abortion in the case of a high probability of severe and irreversible impairment of the fetus or an incurable disease that threatens the fetus" is inconsistent with the Polish Constitution, which was permitted since 1993 until the time when the conceived child reaches the age when it is able to survive outside the mother's body, in practice up to the 24th week of pregnancy.
This ruling makes abortion for eugenic reasons illegal in Poland!
The verdict was delivered in full bench. Two judges submitted dissenting opinions.
The petition to the Constitutional Tribunal in this case was a cross-party parliamentary initiative. 119 deputies and deputies from three different parliamentary clubs, 8 political parties and non-party members signed the application.
The ruling states that the above point of the act is inconsistent with Art. 38 of the constitution, which states that …More