Senate halts work on own abortion bill
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Following widespread street protests in Poland, the Senate has suspended work on draft legislation concerning termination of pregnancies. “We have to wait to see the results of the Sejm's work regarding abortion regulations,” Stanisław Karczewski, Marshal of the Senate, said on Wednesday.
“We are all thinking about and keeping in mind what happened recently, the very large protests. It's unfortunate that someone said that they were irrelevant, unimportant, small protests, when in fact they were large and expressed the opinion of a large part of society,” he further stated. The Minister of Interior Witold Waszczykowski said after the protests that “the scale of the demonstration was marginal.”
