Poland: A pro-life nation
Antonio Gaspari’s Zenit interview with the secretary of World Prayer for Life and vice president of the Polish Federation of Pro-Life Movements, Antoni Zieba:
From Gaspari’s intro:
Compared with Spain for example, which has a similar abortion law, Poland has a very low number of abortions. In Spain in 2006 there were 98,500 abortions, while in Poland that same year, there were 360 abortions, less than one a day.
From the interview:
Zieba: Poland was the first country in the world to reject, democratically, a law allowing abortion, and to introduce one that protects human life from conception. And yet, several organizations, such as the United Nations and the European Union, are pressuring Poland to change its abortion law.
These pressures are triggering objections and disagreements on the part of the people that, especially among the eldest, remember that the first abortion law was imposed by the Nazis, and the second was promulgated by the Communist dictatorship.