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For five days straight, thousands have taken to the streets in Poland to protest a court ruling on abortion. The country’s Constitutional Tribunal last week outlawed abortion in all but the most exceptional of circumstances. Poland already has some of the strictest anti-abortion laws in Europe. The government says military police will be brought in this week to curb the demonstrations but protesters say they will not be stopped. The World’s Europe correspondent Orla Barry reports.