Poland's conservative president, Andrzej Duda, refused to allow the morning after pill to be issued to minors without a prescription. Pro-EU coalition, in power since December, adopted a bill aimed at allowing free access to the morning-after pill from the age of 15.
The government had announced that it would circumvent the president's obstruction by allowing pharmacists to issue prescriptions for the pill. The debate coincides with attempts to liberalize Poland's abortion laws, one of the strictest in Europe.