The proposal put before the Polish Parliament for a near-total ban on abortions does not have the support of the government, Polish Deputy Prime Minister Jaroslaw Gowin has said. The citizens' bill, backed by the Catholic Church, would make abortions illegal unless the mother's life was at risk. On Monday, women across Poland boycotted work and gathered in public to protest the bill, and Gowin admitted that this had given the government "food for thought." On Tuesday, Prime Minister Beata Szydlo said her government "is not working on any legislation changing the rules on abortion in Poland."