Polish president backtracks on abortion view amid protests

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s President Andrzej Duda said Thursday that women themselves should have the right to abortion in case of congenitally damaged fetuses, apparently breaking ranks with a conservative leadership that pushed a ban that has led to mass street protests. “It cannot be that the law requires this kind of heroism from a woman,” Duda said in an interview with radio RMF FM. He spoke after seven straight days of huge protests…