Hundreds took to streets of the Polish capital on Monday (November 9) to protest against the country's abortion law.

Footage filmed in central Warsaw shows a large police presence and protesters dancing.

Hundreds of thousands of people have taken part in peaceful protests across Poland since a constitutional court decided to ban abortion even in cases of fetal defects. The Catholic church is against abortion and Poland already has some of the strictest termination laws in Europe. Most of the limited number of terminations allowed were in cases of fetal defects. On Monday the protesters were sitting in the street in front of the education ministry demanding the firing of the new education minister. A few hundred protesters then marched through downtown Warsaw chanting anti-government slogans when the police moved in to disperse them.