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<text id=93TT1078>
<title>
Mar. 01, 1993: The Church Triumphant
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
Mar. 01, 1993 You Say You Want a Revolution...
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
THE WEEK, Page 12
WORLD
The Church Triumphant
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<p>Poland adopts one of Europe's strictest antiabortion measures
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<p> Talk about u-turns. With a pen's stroke, President Lech Walesa
set in motion legal machinery that within weeks will transform
Poland from a country with virtually no legal limits on abortion
to one that possesses (next to Ireland) Europe's strictest laws
on terminating pregnancies. Under the new measure, doctors can
perform abortions only when there is proof of rape, incest,
genetic abnormality in the fetus or an imminent threat to a
mother's health. Noncomplying physicians are liable to two-year
prison sentences.
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<p> The law culminates a three-year campaign by the Roman Catholic
Church against the abortion on demand that flourished for three
decades under communism. Women's groups and a liberal wing of
the anticommunist Solidarity movement, among others, opposed
the severity of the curb. The church hierarchy, supported by
Pope John Paul II, pushed for a total ban. Walesa, an abortion
foe, opted to sign the new law as the best way to end quarreling.
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