Poland delays implementing abortion ruling amid nationwide protests

Women’s rights and man activists with posters of the Women’s Strike action protest against recent tightening of Poland’s restrictive abortion law in front of the parliament building as inside, guards had to be used to shield right-wing ruling party leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski from angry opposition lawmakers, in Warsaw, Poland, on Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2020. Massive nationwide protests have been held ever since a top court ruled Thursday that abortions due to fetal congenital defects are unconstitutional. Slogan reads ‘Women’s Strike’. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Poland’s right-wing government is delaying the publication and implementation of a high court ruling that tightens the abortion law, which has triggered almost two weeks of nationwide protests.

A government official said leaders are taking time to debate the contested ruling and find a solution.