Abortion Ban Turns Women Into Enemy of the State in Poland
Protests over a court ruling are morphing into wider anger against the government as the coronavirus pandemic escalates.
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Poland’s most powerful politician is used to targeting what he sees as the nation’s enemies, whether liberal “elites” or the gay community. Now he’s turned on protesters against a law effectively banning abortion.
But as he stares down mounting anger, Law & Justice party leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski’s message to the country this week underscored how the latest battle in Poland’s culture war risks becoming the biggest threat to the populist government since it came to power five years ago.