⁍ Thousands took to the streets across Poland on Wednesday for the seventh day of protests against a court ruling.

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⁍ Police warned demonstrators not to target churches again after some services were disrupted and buildings defaced in an earlier protest.

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⁍ The decision means only abortions due to incest, rape or a risk to the mother’s health remain legal.

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⁍ Demonstrators have blamed the nationalist government of Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki and the Roman Catholic Church.

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– Poland’s government says it will respect a court ruling that permits abortions only in cases of rape, incest, and to protect the mother’s health, the AP reports. Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said Wednesday that the government will respect last week’s ruling by the country’s Supreme Court, which said the only exceptions to Poland’s near-total ban on abortion were cases of incest, rape, or risk to the mother’s health. The ruling was seen as a major victory for the right-wing Law and Justice party, which has been in power in Poland for five years and has close ties to the Catholic Church. The protests that have rocked the country for seven days have been mostly peaceful, but police say they will take “decisive action” if organizers plan more “acts of aggression and profanation,” Reuters reports.