President's same-sex adoption ban reaches lower house

A presidential bill amending the Constitution to forbid persons in same-sex unions from adopting children has reached the Sejm (lower house). Duda announced the bill on Saturday, signed it on Monday morning and sent it to the Sejm on the same day. Commenting his move, Duda said his bill would not introduce any drastic changes to the constitution but it would add certain family-law regulations. He added that it will now be anchored constitutionally that children can be raised in Poland only by married couples and not by persons in a same-sex union.