BREAKING: Poland's Conservative Ruling Party Kills Total Abortion Ban

Natalia Dueholm : Oct 6, 2016
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The day before the ultimate rejection of the "Stop Abortion" bill, the Commission suddenly met to vote on the rejection recommendation. Ignoring the norm of a three-day notice, the members of the Commission were called into Parliament with text messages shortly before the meeting. There was no discussion, and the experts and authors of the bill were not allowed to speak.

(Warsaw, Poland)—[LifeSiteNews] Poland's Sejm, the lower house of Parliament, voted 352-58 on Thursday to reject the total abortion ban proposed by the "Stop Abortion" Committee. (Photo: Pro-abortion protesters/via LifeSiteNews.com)

The bill was written by Ordo Iuris lawyers and spearheaded by pro-life groups and not by any political parties. In a three-month period, the petition received almost half a million signatures of support among Poles.
 
The Sejm's rejection was a surprising turn of events since only two weeks ago it voted 267-154 to continue the legislative process on the "Stop Abortion" measure and tossed out a "Save Women" bill proposing abortion on demand (up to 12 weeks) by a margin of 230-173.
 
The "Save Women" proposal, presented by abortion advocates, also sought inclusions for the health of the mother with no specific time limit and fetal deformity up to 24 weeks. The pro-life bill would have completely banned abortions, only allowing for medical intervention to save a mother's life.
 
On September 23, the pro-life draft was sent to the Sejm's Commission of Justice and Human Rights (the Commission) to allow for further deliberations.
 
But, in fact, there were no such discussions. The day before the ultimate rejection of the "Stop Abortion" bill, the Commission suddenly met to vote on the rejection recommendation. Ignoring the norm of a three-day notice, the members of the Commission were called into Parliament with text messages shortly before the meeting. There was no discussion, and the experts and authors of the bill were not allowed to speak.
 
Witold Czarnecki from Law and Justice (Pis) party and a group of the opposition party Civic Platform recommended killing the abortion ban, which was done quickly despite protests from the politicians of the opposition. Strangely, the Civic Platform, which is against the ban, wanted to prevent the bill from being killed to continue their political fight.
 
The ruling Law and Justice party apparently could not take the heat after a weekend of the pro-abortion and anti-government "Black Protest," widely promoted by the media...
 
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