How should Polish doctors affirm the right to life amid the efforts of the ruling coalition and Prime Minister Donald Tusk to legalize abortion in Poland, despite the constitutional protection of life from the moment of conception?

A commentary on the new recommendations of the Polish Society of Gynecologists and Obstetricians from Prof. Bogdan Chazan and legal counsel Katarzyna Gęsiak.

- According to polls, a majority of Poles support an increased legal availability of prenatal killing than the public has access to at present. This support fluctuates, however, depending on how a poll’s questions are formulated.

- Leading Republican politicians from the US state of Wisconsin have announced their desire to hold a referendum on the state's abortion law.

- The debate currently taking place on the legal protection of life is the result of a 2022 Supreme Court ruling that the so-called right to abortion is not guaranteed by the provisions of the US Constitution.

- The European Parliament will vote on a draft resolution on fundamental rights in the European Union.

- The motion, among other things, condemns the impossibility of performing legal abortion, supports the extension of the list of EU crimes to include 'hate speech' and states that 'housing is not a commodity but a necessity'.

- A US research centre has published data showing that in the first six months of 2023, the number of births in some US states increased by an average of 2.3%.

- These are the states that restricted abortion after Roe v. Wade was overturned.

- These figures may be a good indication of how to mitigate the demographic crisis. However, they have been received coolly by left-wing circles in the US.

· The UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women has issued a statement that the right to abortion is a human right and derives from international law.

· Accordingly, this body recommends that all states parties decriminalise and legalise abortion and provide 'gender' sensitive education on 'sexual and reproductive health' and rights in this area.