The disease of abortion spans international waters and Poland is no exception. Over the weekend, thousands of abortion enthusiasts gathered in Warsaw to protest the country's proposed ban on the barbaric practice, following a notorious incident where a live baby cried itself to death after surviving a botched abortion. 

Poland's Law and Justice party, a socially conservative party with strong ties to the Catholic Church, has been slowly consolidating power since taking both houses of parliament in November of last year and have now aimed their cross-hairs at abortion, spurring the socialist opposition into protest.

Though Poland already has much stricter abortion laws than the U.S., allowing it only under certain circumstances like a potentially deformed fetus, the newly established government under Law and Justice party chairman Jaroslaw Kaczynski and Prime Minister Beata Szydlo feels a strong duty to end it based on their affinity with the Catholic Church. 

Protesters in Warsaw expressed deep dismay over the newly proposed ban, accusing the government of subjecting women to "torture." The infamous coat hanger could be seen among the angry crowd as well as a sign that read "Abortion for the government."

"We can’t agree for women to be forced to live nine months aware that they’ll give birth to a fetus without a head, lungs or heart," said Marcelina Zawisza, an executive of the socialist Razem party. "The United Nations say it clearly: it’s torture for women."

The Law and Justice party has not been in power for over a decade and has also proposed to reject migrants following terrorist attacks in Paris and Brussels.