Polish women travel abroad for abortions ahead of law change
by Shaun Walker and Anna Koslerova in Prague from on (#5BKHZ)
Support services in Poland and abroad say numbers increasing even before legislation is tightened
Polish women are increasingly being forced to travel abroad to seek abortions even though a court ruling to tighten the country's already strict laws has not yet coming into force, activists have said.
The constitutional court ruled in October that abortion was illegal even in cases where there were severe foetal abnormalities. Around 1,000 abortions a year - almost all of the country's legal abortion procedures - are carried out for this reason.
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