Polish doctors torn over mental health as grounds to bypass near-total abortion ban


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  • Saturday, 20 Mar 2021

Paulina, a 29-year-old Polish woman who is not able to procees with abortion as Polish court ruling restricted abortion even further, only allowing for it in the case of rape looks at the sea in Gdynia, Poland, March 16, 2021. Picture taken March 16, 2021. REUTERS/Kuba Stezycki

WARSAW (Reuters) - When Polish doctors told Paulina, 29, that her unborn child had no kidneys and would die upon birth, she knew she couldn't go through with the pregnancy.

"Everyone says that the reward after the pain of birth is holding your child in your hands," said Paulina, a retail manager from Gdynia, who asked Reuters to withhold her surname.

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