Poland’s lawmakers voted on Thursday to approve over-the-counter entry to the morning-after capsule for ages 15 and above in a step to liberalize Poland’s strict reproductive regulation inherited from the earlier nationalist conservative authorities.
The vote within the decrease home was step one within the plans of the brand new pro-European Union authorities to loosen the anti-abortion and anti-contraception regulation, which is amongst Europe’s hardest.
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The lawmakers voted 224-196 within the Sejm with one abstention to liberalize entry to the hormonal contraceptive, referred to as ellaOne.
A Polish flag flies close to the spire of the Palace of Tradition and Sciences, Warsaw, Poland, Feb. 12, 2022. (Picture by STR/NurPhoto through Getty Pictures)
The morning-after capsule, which prevents being pregnant, is at present obtainable solely by prescription. The earlier conservative authorities, backed by President Andrzej Duda, tightened reproductive legal guidelines, drawing main avenue protests.
Abortion in Poland, a predominantly Roman Catholic nation, is authorized solely when the being pregnant threatens a girl’s well being or life, or outcomes from rape. The strict regulation has had a chilling impact on Poland’s docs, and has led to quite a few deaths of girls with troubled pregnancies.
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The brand new contraception laws nonetheless want approval from the Senate, which is anticipated to grant it, and from Duda.