WARSAW – A leader of Poland’s massive protests triggered by the tightening of the country's strict abortion law said Monday the court ruling must be withdrawn.Klementyna Suchanow, leader of the “Women’s Strike” rights organization, said that a 12th daily round of street blockades and marches was planned Monday and more will come during the week, despite an anti-COVID-19 ban on public gatherings of more than five people.
Nationwide protests by hundreds of thousands of people have been held daily since Oct. 22 when a constitutional court barred abortions of fetuses with congenital defects, further narrowing one of Europe’s most restrictive abortion laws in the predominantly Catholic nation.