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Supporters of women's rights activist Justyna Wydrzynska before a Warsaw court where Wydrzynska's appeal was being heard of a 2023 conviction for providing abortion pills to another woman, before the ...

WARSAW, Poland — An appeals court in Poland said Thursday that it would rule next month in the case of a women's rights activist convicted in 2023 of providing another woman with abortion pills.

Helping a woman have an abortion is illegal in Poland and can result in up to three years in prison. Wydrzynska appealed the sentence, arguing that one of the judges that ruled at the time wasn ...