The right to abortion in Poland in the light of the Constitutional Tribunal’s judgment of 22 October 2020

The article presents the conditions for exercising the right to abortion in Poland following the entry into force of the judgment of the Constitutional Tribunal of 22 October 2020, ref. no. K 1/20 (Journal of Laws “Dziennik Ustaw” of 2021, item 175), declaring unconstitutional those provisions of the Act of 7 January 1993 on Family Planning, Protection of the Human Foetus and Conditions of Permissibility of Abortion, which provided for the possibility to terminate a pregnancy due to defects in the development of the foetus. Moreover, the publication presents the arguments which were invoked in the analysed judgment and indicates its legal and social effects.