Polish women take to streets protesting against restrictive abortion law Sunday Oct 23,2016

Polish women have taken to the streets across the country, launching another round of protests against efforts by the nation's conservative leaders to tighten already restrictive abortion law.

A large group gathered on Sunday Oct 23,2016 outside the parliament building in Warsaw, chanting "We have had enough!"

The latest round of demonstrations, held under the slogan "We are not putting our umbrellas away," was organised in response to a new proposal that would fall short of a total ban, but outlaw abortions in cases where fetuses are unviable or badly damaged.

Abortion was legal and easily available under communism in Poland, but after communism's fall the country re-embraced many of its Catholic traditions.

The current law, passed in 1993, bans most abortions, with exceptions only made in cases of rape, if the mother's life or health is at risk, or if the fetus is irreparably damaged.

Official statistics show there were 1,040 legal abortions in Poland last year, although many more abortions are known to take place, with women or traveling to neighboring countries for the procedure or ordering abortion-inducing pills online.