On Friday, Seim sent a draft amendment to the Criminal Code, which presupposes the partial decriminalization of abortion based on the woman's consent and the decriminalization of assisted abortion alone, to parliament for further work in an ad hoc committee. It was referred.
157 KO MPs voted against rejecting the project, including 31 from Poland 2050, 17 from PSL, 21 from the Left, 5 from Razem, and 1 independent. 184 PiS MPs (11 from the PSL, 17 from the Coalition and 4 from the Republican Party) did not want the committee to consider the project again.
The bill envisages the partial decriminalization of abortions with the woman's consent in violation of the provisions of the Family Planning Act, the protection of the fetus and the conditions of acceptance of abortion, as well as the decriminalization of assisted voluntary abortions.
It presupposes the abolition of art. 152 Foot 1, terminating a pregnancy with the woman's consent in violation of the provisions of the 1993 Law on Family Planning, Protection of the Unborn Child and Acceptable Conditions of Termination is punishable by up to three years' imprisonment .
This includes, among other things: Proposals to terminate a pregnancy with the consent of a woman in violation of the provisions of the Family Planning Law are punishable by restriction of freedom or imprisonment for up to five years, provided that more than 12 weeks have passed since the beginning of the pregnancy. .
Decriminalization of abortion. Another approach in Same
This is the second attempt by the bill's authors to persuade a majority in Congress to decriminalize abortion. The first plan failed on July 12th. A draft amendment to the Criminal Code, in which the Same Select Committee recommended consideration of four bills regarding provisions regarding abortion, was subsequently rejected by a majority of parliamentarians.
Although there was no support from the Polish People's Party, most of its MPs, including Law and Justice and Union, voted against decriminalization.
Previously, the Law on Family Planning, Protection of the Unborn Child and Admissible Conditions of Abortion allowed abortion in cases of severe and irreversible fetal impairment or life-threatening incurable diseases.
The Constitutional Court ruled that this basis for abortion was unconstitutional, sparking a wave of protests across the country. This provision expired in January 2021 with the publication of the Constitutional Court's decision.
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