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The Polish government is being accused of setting up a “pregnancy register” to document all the pregnancies in the country. Poland has some of the strictest abortion laws in Europe. The country’s Health Ministry said the new database is being set up following a directive by the European Union. But as The World’s Europe correspondent Orla Barry reports, abortion activists are not convinced.