Poland’s government put into effect on Wednesday a constitutional court decision banning terminations of pregnancies with fetal defects, three months after the court ruled that the abortion of congenitally damaged fetuses is unconstitutional. The constitutional court of Poland, a deeply Catholic country, issued on Wednesday a justification of a controversial October ruling that bans abortions in cases of fetuses with congenital defects, even ones so severe that there is no chance of survival upon birth. The government then published the court’s ruling in a government journal of laws. Those steps were the formal prerequisites required for the new law to enter into force. Under the new rules, terminations will be permitted only in cases of rape and incest, and when the mother’s life or health is endangered. Doctors performing illegal abortions in Poland face jail. In a justification published on Wednesday, the tribunal left open the possibility of parliament regulating …