Oh please. So one country has an opinion that differs from yours and automatically that makes them backwards.

Half of your comment is very nice, other half shows that you know nothing about polish abortion law and the current situation. Mess around abortion was made to cover CETA vote only :) And proposition to ban all abortion was made by people, not a government

Poland is actually ahead of you on reproductive rights. See, you know that intercourse carries a risk of pregnancy, but you CHOOSE to take that risk. You also know that birth control is not 100% effective, yet you CHOOSE to take that risk too. And then when another life is on the table, you whine about your "rights". Polish women instead hold themselves responsible for the reproductive choices they already made. Its why they are respected more than American women.

Our abortion law is ok. You just don't know what you are talking about.

Dude you go to Poland and see how rough life is over there. I've seen it so for them to make an effort to not just catch up to the new age but to innovate something one their own js amazing. Don't judge...

Evan Creem. To much TV, not enough real information. Could not find english version, but if you know anybody who knows polish language she/he can translate it for you... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gvR6qYZRR0

The catholic church is very dominant in Poland so it makes things difficult. However, Poland is the only country in the recent history (the only?) that shook off the Russian occupation and communism without bloodshed and war. They just passed a slightly better reproductive law yesterday.

Being a religious country as it is doesn't make them "in the dark ages" There are people in this world that still believe in GOD!

What in the hell does that have to do with a bike path? Not a damn thing...

Is not Poland in the dark ages, it is the Polish government mate

You jackasses need to respect others beliefs and stop pushing your bogus b******t.

The bikepath has nothing to do with the country government. It was made by the local government (samorząd) which is quite autonomical in Poland and is often very progressive. On the other hand the country government (rząd) really does not like cyclists...

This project of abortion rights is not from polish government. This in public project. Polish government rejected this project in parliament.

You sick sob!

First - it was idea of Ordo Iuris society, not the government(group of citizen, who gathered enough people to sign petition and government had to vote over it). Second, government clearly said that, they aren't really interested in such project back then, and they gave red light to that idea yesterday. But several political parties interested in taking over government position decided to made it scandalous and "big" and were spreading false rumours and information. In addition as I mentioned before government really wasn't interested in that laws so all this mess wasn't necessary at all. I will tell you something more amusing, when ruling party rejected that project it were other parties (which supported and organised that strike) said that voting was illegal and tried to block it. Because they didn't care about that laws, they just wanted to get opportunity to remove current government. In other words, many people both in Poland and abroad were just fooled by that bastards.

I agree!

I'm polish girl. In Poland women were manipulated. The new abortion law was reported to the parliament by a non-governmental organization Ordo Iuris, it wasn't our government's idea, it was people's idea. The women went on the streets thinking they're protesting against government. They went on the streets before the new law was even taken to vote. The women didn't even know what is exactly written in this new law! They thought it's about not letting prenatal medicine examinations, and it was an exact opposition - Ordo Iuris wanted the prenatal medicine examinations to actually CURE the sick children, not to let them die instead. There were many other lies about this law in media. In the end it was of course neglected by the government. Now the government is preparing an act about helping women who decide to born a child even in the most dramatic and hard situation, but the whole law won't change (abortion is permissible in case of rape, threat on mother's life and chid's disability).