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Women and activists hold a demonstration in front of the Polish public television station TVP building in Warsaw on the eighth straight day of mass protests over a court ruling to impose a near-total abortion ban in Poland. IMAGES
Women in Poland walk off the job and hit the streets, the seventh straight day of mass protests over a court ruling to impose a near-total abortion ban in Poland. IMAGES
Poland's parliament reject an abortion ban after women staged massive nationwide protests, in a devoutly Catholic nation where the law is already among the most restrictive in Europe. IMAGES
Missouri's attorney general Eric Schmitt announces that his state will be the first "to effectively end abortion" in the United States, after the conservative-dominated Supreme Court overturned the landmark 1973 "Roe v. Wade" decision that enshrined a woman's right to an abortion, saying that individual states can now permit or restrict the procedure themselves. "I pledge to continue to fight for our most fundamental right: the right to life," Schmitt says in a video statement posted to social media. SOUNDBITE
People take to the streets of Warsaw on International Women's Day to protest the controversial near-total abortion ban passed last year which sparked harsh criticism and mass demonstrations across the country. IMAGES
Thousands protest for a third consecutive night in Warsaw and other parts of Poland after the country's right-wing government implemented a court ruling imposing a near-total ban on abortion. Protesters have defied coronavirus restrictions and sub-zero temperatures to rally after the controversial judgement was given legal force on Wednesday 27 January 2021. IMAGES
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