The Sejm did not adopt the amendment to the Criminal Code. The project was based on the decriminalization of assisted abortion and termination of pregnancy with the consent of the pregnant woman up to the twelfth week of pregnancy. There was applause from PiS MPs in the Sejm hall. They chanted: “For life!”
215 MPs voted in favour of adopting the law, 218 MPs voted against and 2 MPs abstained.
Earlier, members of parliament did not support the motion to reject the draft amendment to the Criminal Code in second reading.
The draft amendment to the Criminal Code was submitted by left-wing MPs and was one of four parliamentary bills sent to the Extraordinary Committee to Consider Bills on the Right to Termination of Pregnancy after the April Sejm session. The committee members were the first to deal with it.
At the end of June, the Commission issued a positive opinion on the project. It provided for changes that consisted mainly in the decriminalization of assisted abortion and termination of pregnancy with the consent of the pregnant woman up to the twelfth week of pregnancy.
Currently, Article 152 of the Criminal Code states that “anyone who terminates her pregnancy with the woman’s consent in violation of the provisions of the law shall be liable to imprisonment for a term of up to three years.” The law also provides for the same penalty for assisting a pregnant woman in terminating her pregnancy in violation of the provisions of the law, or for persuading her to have an abortion. The drafters wanted to change this regulation.
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Source: wPolityce