Poland enacts near-total ban on abortions, triggering more protests

Warsaw, January 29 (RHC)-- Poland has put into effect its near-total ban on abortions.  Thousands poured onto the streets of Warsaw to decry the move.   An organizer of the protests, Gabriela Stepniak: “I want us to have our basic rights, the right to decide about our bodies, the right to decide what we want to do and if we want to bear children and in what circumstances to have children.”

The ban comes three months after Poland’s highest court declared almost all abortions to be unconstitutional, prompting the largest protests since the Solidarity movement of the 1980s.

In other news, Honduras has imposed some of the most draconian anti-choice laws in Latin America by voting to lock in the country’s ban on abortions so future governments will not be able to legalize the procedure. 

Abortions are banned under any circumstance in Honduras, and those who receive them can be put in jail.  The recently passed legislation, which also bans same-sex marriage, comes less than a month after Argentina legalized abortion.