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Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk mentioned Wednesday that his authorities will legislate to legalize civil partnerships and decriminalize abortion.
“We’ll vote for the decriminalization of abortion. We’ll vote for civil partnerships as a authorities venture, though not everyone seems to be satisfied. We’re ending the dialogue, it is time for choices,” Tusk wrote on X.
The Left, the smaller celebration in Tusk’s three-way coalition, has been pushing for the transfer because the authorities took workplace on the finish of final yr, however has been stymied by opposition from the Third Means grouping — a extra conservative voice within the predominantly Catholic nation.
In June, the Sejm extraordinary committee contemplating draft legal guidelines on the best to terminate being pregnant, voted in favor of one of many Left’s payments, which assumes decriminalization of acts associated to abortion. Poland has one of the restrictive abortion legal guidelines in Europe.
President Andrzej Duda introduced Tuesday he would veto the invoice.
“For me, abortion is killing individuals,” he mentioned in an interview for a tv channel. “Ladies who determine to terminate their pregnancies shouldn’t be punished in any manner,” however there stays the difficulty of people that “would in some way take part on this process illegally.”
The federal government’s listing of legislative works revealed a discover Monday on the draft act on civil partnerships. In line with the proposed provisions, a registered partnership might be open to 2 single adults, no matter gender.
The draft regulation on civil partnerships assumes that its deliberate date of adoption by the federal government is the fourth quarter of 2024. Solely then will it’s submitted to parliament.
The proposed regulation is at the moment on the inter-ministerial consultations and public consultations levels.
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