Women in Poland are waging a nationwide strike boycotting school and jobs to protest the introduction of a total ban on abortion.
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In an event dubbed “Black Monday,” thousands of women avoided workplaces and schools, and businesses closed their doors to protest a new law that would criminalise all terminations in Poland.
Women took both paid and unpaid leave as part of the protest, and strikers staged a picket line — named the “Wall of Fury” — under the right wing Law and Justice party’s headquarters.
Polish women at a demonstration in Warsaw on Monday.
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Thousands of Polish women go on strike to protest abortion ban
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