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Poland's top court rules out abortions due to fetal defects

by Monika Scislowska
| October 22, 2020 9:27 AM

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s top court ruled Thursday that a law allowing abortion of fetuses with congenital defects is unconstitutional, shutting a major loophole in the predominantly Catholic country's abortion laws that are among the strictest in Europe.

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