Twenty Years of Anti Abortion Law in Poland
In the past twenty years Federation for Women and Family Planning prepared and published several reports concerning social impact of the Act on Family Planning, Protection of the Human Foetus and Conditions of Pregnancy Termination, which came into force in 1993. The reports were based on the Federation’s experience, analyses of available government, police and medical sources as well as sociological studies and statistics. The aim of the present report is to draw attention to the failure in implementation and fictional character of the law remaining in force for over two decades. The law which contradicts the secular nature of a democratic state.