Europe live: Poland considers loosening near total ban on abortion

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In a statement yesterday, the archbishop Tadeusz Wojda, president of the Polish Bishops’ Conference, said:

I urgently ask all people of good will to care for the lives of unborn children and their mothers, to oppose the culture of exclusion, which deprives the most defenceless and weak people of their fundamental right – the right to life.