People protest against imposing further restrictions on abortion law in Warsaw, Poland October 23, 2020. Jedrzej Nowicki/Agencja Gazeta via REUTERS
WARSAW (Reuters) - Protests gathered across Poland after the Constitutional Tribunal ruled on Thursday that abortion due to foetal defects was unconstitutional, banning the most common of the few legal grounds for ending a pregnancy in the largely Catholic country.
After the ruling goes into effect, abortion will only be permissible in Poland in the case of rape, incest or a threat to the mother's health and life, which make up only about 2% of legal terminations conducted in recent years.
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