Hundreds of people protested during mass at Polish churches on Sunday against a court ruling that amounts to a near-total ban on abortion, Reuters reports.
Reuters said protesters were with some spraying slogans on the buildings and others stringing up lines of black laundry.
It is the first time when protests have been held directly at churches, both inside and out, in the predominantly Catholic country where the Constitutional Court ruling has now triggered four days of demonstrations.
The ruling that abortions due to fetal defects were unconstitutional ends the most common of the few legal grounds left in Poland and sets the country further apart from the European mainstream.
Protesters interrupted a mass in Poznan, in western Poland, chanting “we are sick of this” and holding banners such as “Catholic women also need their right to abortion” in front of the altar, state news agency PAP reported.
Anano Nikoladze
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