WARSAW – Women’s rights advocates in Poland divided International Women’s Day on Monday between reasons to celebrate and a strong sense that a long legal battle awaits them.
In January, a near-total ban on abortion went into effect in this historically Catholic country, a measure long sought by the ruling conservative law and justice party.

However, as Marta Lempart, leader of the Polish Women’s Strike social women’s rights movement, told The Associated Press prior to the Warsaw protest,