Tusk says he doesn’t have the votes in parliament to liberalize Poland’s strict abortion law

Associated Press

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has acknowledged that he does not have the backing in parliament to change the country’s abortion law, which is among the most restrictive in Europe. Tusk returned to power decade last December at the head of a coalition that spans a broad ideological divide, with lawmakers on the left who want to legalize abortion and conservatives who strongly oppose that. Tusk said his government is working on establishing new procedures in the prosecutor’s office and in Polish hospitals in order to ease some of the restrictions.