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Abortion bill

WARSAW (Reuter) - President Lech Walesa signed a new abortion law following nearly three years of heated debate in Poland on the issue. The new law makes abortions legal whenever childbirth endangers a mother's life or could seriously impair her health, as well as in pregnancies resulting from incest or rape.

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