Polish Gov't. makes U-turn on total abortion ban.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/oct/05/polish-government-performs-u-turn-on-total-abortion-ban?CMP=fb_gu

A controversial proposal to ban abortion in Poland appears to have collapsed after senior politicians from the ruling Law and Justice party (PiS) backed away from it after a parliamentary committee urged MPs to vote it down following mass protests.

The justice and human rights committee, which reviews proposed legislation, recommended that parliament reject the bill following a wave of protests earlier in the week that appear to have caught the rightwing government off guard.

In a humiliating climbdown, PiS members who had referred the legislation to the committee less than two weeks ago threw it out.

The Liberal MP and former prime minister Ewa Kopacz told reporters the PiS had “backtracked because it was scared by all the women who hit the streets in protest”.

[malaise]

1. Those were massive protests

Great news

[Warpy]

2. Protests were incredibly powerful and effective

and showed those sanctimonious boobs exactly what would happen when they lost half their workforce to enforced childbirth.

They'll have to find another way to bribe their way into heaven.

[Mc Mike]

3. Great news, thanks. nt.