A Comparative Analysis of Abortion Law in Poland and the United States Roksana Gorgolewski Edited by Sabrina Ghashehbaba
A hotly contested political issue, abortion has been just as challenged in legal settings beyond the United States. Nations across the globe have had different methods for legislating abortion through time. Taking Poland and the United States as test cases for their similarly structured federal governments and majority prochoice constituents, these nations show vast differences in the methods to both criminalize and legalize abortion. This article aims to compare Poland and America’s complex abortion history, taking a unique focus of analyzing the Catholic Church’s impact on laws and jurisprudence as a result. The terminal conclusion finds that the Church’s impact in both nations has been grossly underrepresented in academia and supports the theory that Poland and the United States share similar legal histories regarding current legalization efforts against abortion.
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