According to this “Todayonline” article:
… Abortion is only allowed in Poland in cases of rape, incest, danger to the mother’s life or irreversible malformation of the foetus. Breaking the law carries a two-year jail term.
Recently the ultra-Catholic far right in the country’s parliament sought to have a “right to life from the moment of conception” written into the constitution to prevent any liberalization of the abortion law, and possibly to ban the practice outright.
The move by the League of Polish Families, part of the ruling coalition, has won the backing of the powerful Polish Roman Catholic church.
When Poland was a member of the Soviet bloc abortion was freely available, as it was elsewhere in communist countries. But severe limits were placed on it in 1993 legislation after the fall of communism.
Feminist organisations say that a total ban would only strengthen an already flourishing back street abortion industry.
“We calculate at between 80,000 and 200,000 a year the number of illegal abortions in Poland,” Wanda Nowicka, president of the country’s family planning federation, told AFP recently.
The article also notes that Polish feminists have been demonstrating in favor of a return to legalized abortion. Via The F-Word.
