Near-Total Abortion Ban After Constitutional Tribunal Ruling

The PiS-packed Constitutional Tribunal ruled that abortion in cases of severe fetal defects — which had accounted for the vast majority of Poland's already-rare legal abortions — was unconstitutional, leaving the procedure legal only in cases of rape, incest, or risk to the mother's life. The ruling triggered the largest protests in Poland since the fall of communism, under the banner "Women's Strike".

Mateusz Morawiecki — Law and Justice (PiS)

In power 2015–2023