Several thousand people protested in Warsaw on Sunday in defense of conceived life, protesting against four draft laws aimed at liberalizing the regulations governing abortion, which were submitted for further discussion in the lower house of parliament.

Live Poland, the national life march, organized by several pro-life organizations under the honorary patronage of the Polish bishops' conference. was held with a motto.

On Friday, Archbishop Tadeusz Wojda, president of the Polish bishops' conference, asked the faithful to pray for the protection of conceived life on Sunday.

The crowd marching under Polish flags, including many families with children, marched along a more than two-kilometer downtown route from the square in front of the Royal Castle in Warsaw to Three Cross Square, where the demonstration ended with a concert.

The National Life Procession has been organized since 2019.

This year, it was tied to the fact that Poland adopted Christianity 1058 years ago, which falls on the anniversary Sunday.

The organizers of the march also reacted to the ruling party drafts aimed at liberalizing the right to abortion, which the Sejm submitted for further discussion on Friday, and also created a special parliamentary committee to evaluate the package.

The draft submitted by the leading party of the Polish government coalition, the Civic Coalition, would allow termination of pregnancy up to the 12th week of pregnancy. The same would be possible with the two drafts submitted by the Left faction, which also belongs to the government coalition, one of which would also permit abortion in certain, medically determined cases at all stages of pregnancy.

The joint plan of the other two parties of the government coalition, Poland 2050 and the Polish Peasant Party (PSL), would restore the status quo according to the law passed in 1993, also known as the abortion compromise, and would announce a referendum on this issue.

The 1993 law allowed termination of pregnancy in three cases: if the pregnancy is the result of sexual violence, if the mother's life is in danger, or if the fetus has suffered irreversible damage.

According to the 2020 decision of the Polish Constitutional Court, abortion is only allowed in the first two cases.

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Cover image: Anti-abortion demonstration in Poland
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