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A year on, Poland's abortion ruling is causing ‘incalculable harm' to women and girls

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As the rule of law crisis between Warsaw and Brussels escalates, activists say the abortion ban imposed by a politicised court just a year ago offers a painful example of how the collapse of judicial independence affects peoples' lives.

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