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In 2021, a young woman came to a hospital in eastern Poland to get an abortion: she was suffering from severe mental distress because the fetus she was carrying had the lethal defect anencephaly. The case of Agata, whose surname is not publicly known, exemplifies what Poland's liberal opposition sees as an erosion of women's rights during the eight-year rule of the nationalist Law and Justice (PiS) party. Agata later obtained an abortion elsewhere, according to activists who helped her, but her plight resonates with many ahead of Sunday's election in which women's rights ...

For several years, the Polish parliament ignored requests from the National Electoral Commission to adjust voting districts to demographic changes. This failure gives disproportionate voting power to rural and small-town voters, many of whom support the ruling Law and Justice party.

Read how Poland's nationalist government has railed against EU asylum policy and migration from "culturally alien" countries but is, in fact, allowing thousands of Asian migrants in to keep the growing economy on track.

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Read why the Polish government had to resort to disinformation when they were discussing family dynamics and the declining birth rate.