NEW 2020 DATA
Abortion legislation | Practical conditions | Abortion statistics
Characteristics of women having induced abortion | Fertility and contraception data | Country-specific characteristics
1953: abortion legalized under former communist Poland
1993: abortion is made illegal on the specific request of the Polish pope Johannes II (Wojtyla)
1997: the President of the Constitutional Court announces that the regulation of permissibility of abortion on the grounds of difficult living conditions or a challenging personal situation loses its legal force
Specific conditions due to COVID-19
- Abortions on the grounds of “foetal abnormality” are no longer considered constitutional, as per ruling of the Polish Constitutional Tribunal from October 22, 2020
Legal conditions
- Written consent by the woman
- Pre-abortion referral from a physician:
– Pregnant woman life/health: physician specialist relevant to the type of the disease
– Fœtus impairment: physician specialist on the genetic defects who states the defect after the genetic testing
Specific conditions for minors
- Parent’s (or guardian’s) consent required for minors under 13
- Consent of the guardianship court required for minors under 13; the minor has the right to express her own opinion.
Abortion legislation | Practical conditions | Abortion statistics | Characteristics of women having induced abortion
Fertility and contraception data | Country-specific characteristics
Pre-abortion referral from a physician is required.
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SOURCES
COVID measures taken from the article by Bojovic N, Stanisljevic J, Giunti G. The impact of COVID-19 on abortion access: Insights from the European Union and the United Kingdom. Health Policy. 2021 Jul;125(7):841-858.
Chancellery of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland (Parliament) (http://isap.sejm.gov.pl/DetailsServlet?id=WDU19930170078)
Federation for Women and Family Planning (http://en.federa.org.pl/)
Act of 7th January, 1993 on Family-Planning, Human Embryo Protection and Conditions of Legal Pregnancy Termination. Art. 4a (http://isap.sejm.gov.pl/DetailsServlet?id=WDU19930170078)
https://appsso.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/nui/submitViewTableAction.do
http://appsso.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/nui/show.do?wai=true&dataset=demo_fabort
https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/demo_frate/default/table?lang=en
Rozporządzenie Ministra Zdrowia z dnia 6 listopada 2013 r. w sprawie świadczeń gwarantowanych z zakresu ambulatoryjnej opieki specjalistycznej (http://prawo.sejm.gov.pl/isap.nsf/download.xsp/WDU20130001413/O/D20131413.pdf)
We thank Dr. Krystyna KACPURA for her help in data collection.
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