WARSAW – Polish lawmakers on Thursday postponed a final decision on a controversial proposal to impose a near-total ban on abortion in the predominantly Catholic country, in a move that could lead to the draft law being mothballed.
Polish and international human rights organizations had strongly condemned the proposal, brought by a Catholic group. Poland's conservative government was also criticized for bringing the deeply divisive issue to parliament at a time when pandemic restrictions on public gatherings would prevent a repeat of the mass protests that killed a similar proposal in the past.
Government officials denied that, citing time limits on outstanding legislative proposals. Some women still protested against the bill in Warsaw and