Left won't let go of abortion

Tusk is a realist and does not want to commit forces and time to projects that are doomed to failure in advance. It is all the more strange that, being aware of the distribution of votes in the Sejm (the average Kowalski was aware of the lack of a majority for legalization from the beginning of the term; unfortunately, politicians in the current government coalition, probably deliberately, preferred to point out, as the only or at least the main obstacle, the veto of President Andrzej Duda), from the beginning he did not focus on one task - decriminalization and decriminalization of aiding and abetting.

The milk was spilled. What's more, since no one has been quacking about cleaning up, it has gone bad - figuratively speaking. The issue has dried up, but it still looks bad and smells bad, and surely the parliamentary autumn will not change that. The topic of abortion still has the potential for coalition division and conflict, even if the Civic Coalition will do its best to mitigate it. The smaller coalition partners will throw themselves at each other's throats, and Tusk will be held responsible. Exactly as it is now - although, after all, it is not the KO leader and prime minister who is responsible for the intransigent (and, on the issue of depenalization, extremely irrational) attitude of the people's party, he is the target of the Left's attacks.

The prime minister vowed to the meeting participants that the state is not abdicating in this area, and the government will do everything to improve the availability of abortion within the framework of current laws. Will this happen, however? For the time being, it is known that the hospital on which the National Health Service imposed a penalty for refusing to perform the procedure despite meeting the health rationale has appealed to the court - there is no expectation of a quick resolution in the form of a final judgment, and precisely this tool - the payer's control - is crucial for the cases that arouse the most emotion. For while termination of pregnancy at its early stage is neither particularly difficult, nor expensive or fraught with risk (primarily legal) in Poland, after the caesura of the 12th week the situation changes dramatically. There is no doubt - this has already been shown by the data for 2023 - that the willingness of (some) hospitals to perform abortions has already increased in the past year and the chilling effect of Julia Przyłębska's CT verdict, which reduced the number of abortions in 2021-2022 to about a hundred per year (!) has clearly weakened. Statistics for 2024 will show whether there has been a qualitative change in this area after the change of government, or whether it will only be possible to speak of a continuation of the trend.