WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish women’s rights activists and left-wing lawmakers have presented a plan to collect signatures in support of a proposal to legalize abortion in the predominantly Catholic country. The initiative comes in reaction to the recent imposition of a near-total ban on abortion in Poland. The activists are calling for the legalization of abortion on demand through the 12th week of pregnancy, but they acknowledge they have no chance of getting such a law passed now. Meanwhile, a coalition partner in Poland’s right-wing government is proposing legislation to create more perinatal hospices. Those are centers where women carrying fetuses expected to die at birth or soon after can receive palliative and psychological care.
