Carrying banners reading, I won't be your Marta on I won't choice not terror.

Protesters gathered in several dozen towns and cities despite restrictions on large gatherings.

Tram routes and streets were also blocked in the capital, Warsaw.

It comes in response to the country's top court ruling last Thursday that abortion will be banned in the case of fetal abnormalities on will be legal only in the case of rape.

Incest were a threat to the woman's health.

For some locals, it was about what this decision means for women now on future generations.

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I am so sorry.

I need to fight for the future of my daughter, but I cannot imagine not being here.

For others, they worry about the possible rise in illegal procedures.

E this'll law will not decrease the number of abortions lost.

This law will not decrease the number of aborted fetuses through what it will.

Dio is put women's lives in danger because there will be less prenatal screening.

They will put Children's lives in danger because they will not be tested through prenatal screenings.

But it wasn't all peaceful.

Some scuffles erupted between protesters and far right groups who broke through a police cordon separating them in front of a church elsewhere in Warsaw, prompting the police to use pepper spray on.

In the city of Wroclaw, abortion rights activists used flares.

Critics say the court has acted on behalf of the ruling party, three conservative Nationalist Law and Justice government, which is in the past step back from efforts to tighten abortion rules.

But the party denies that.

The government has called for our whole to the protests because of the ongoing risk to public health, but more protests are planned across Poland later this week.