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by peoplefromibiza 912 days ago
Quoting here

In 1932 the new Penal Code legalised abortion only when there were medical reasons and, for the first time in Europe, when the pregnancy resulted from a criminal act. This made Poland the first country in Europe outside the Soviet Union to legalize abortion in cases of rape and threat to maternal health.

In 1920 Lenin legalized abortion in the Russian Federation, not in Poland.

> but human rights were not one of them

Poland has major human rights issues right now, in 2023, as a member of the EU.

Stricter laws about the abortion rights have started popping up in 2011 and the latest reform is from 2021. They are quite bad, they basically abolished abortion for 98% of the cases it was performed and for the rest of the cases the waits are so long that it becomes virtually impossible.