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Polish Women Denounce Ruling Party Chief's Abortion CommentQuoteFILE - Polish women shout slogans while raising a hanger, the symbol of illegal abortion, during a nationwide strike and demonstration to protest a legislative proposal for a total ban on abortion in Warsaw, Poland, Oct. 3, 2016. Lawmakers rejected the proposal. WARSAW, POLAND — Polish women who support abortion rights have called for new protests against the ruling conservative party's policy, angered by its leader's words that even badly deformed fetuses with no chance of survival should be born.Women's groups said on Facebook that they would stage a "Black Protest" on Thursday in front of Law and Justice party leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski's house in Warsaw and then hold nationwide rallies on October 24.Earlier this month, women staged massive nationwide protests against a draft law that called for a total ban on abortion and a prison term for women terminating pregnancies. The protesters dressed in black in a sign of concern they could lose some of their rights. Days later, Poland's parliament, including many Law and Justice lawmakers, voted against a total abortion ban.Read More At: http://www.voanews.com/a/polish-women-denounce-party-chief-abortion-comment/3549481.html
FILE - Polish women shout slogans while raising a hanger, the symbol of illegal abortion, during a nationwide strike and demonstration to protest a legislative proposal for a total ban on abortion in Warsaw, Poland, Oct. 3, 2016. Lawmakers rejected the proposal.
