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March 29, 2000
volume 11, no. 63
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POLISH PRESIDENT VETOES ANTI-PORNOGRAPHY LAW

    WARSAW (CWNews.com) - Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski on Monday vetoed a new law that would have set up new, tougher anti-pornography measures, saying it would have unfairly curbed personal freedoms.

    "The president vetoed the bill because its enforcement would institute censorship and limit an individual's freedom to make ethical and artistic choices," Barbara Labuda, a presidential adviser on social issues, said. "Pornography is difficult to define and therefore its ban is hard to enforce. It is possible, however, to protect children and those who do not wish to see pornography, which is what the existing law does," she said.

    The law would have banned the production and distribution of all pornographic materials, the strongest law of its kind in Europe. The measure would have set up punishments of up to five years for dissemination of hard pornography, defined as the depiction of sex involving children, animals, or violence, and two-year terms for milder forms of pornography.

    The bill's supporters do not have the two-thirds majority to overturn the veto. Recent opinion polls found voters were evenly divided on the ban.

          

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