Religiously conservative Law & Justice party embarks on nuclear family agenda,described as ‘payback time for the church’ after years of liberalismCampaigners are planning to step up resistance to Poland’s ultra-conservative government after it cleared a constitutional path for hardline law changes, expected to include a total ban on abortion and curbs to gender and human rights.Tens of thousands joined mass demonstrations in the race-up to the law change, and which would curtail the independence of the constitutional tribunal – the countrys highest legislative court. But to the dismay of women’s rights activists,no protests greeted the government’s first concrete policy move – to scrap subsidies for IVF in public hospitals.
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Source: theguardian.com