Ln November 24, 2022, the National Assembly voted by 337 votes for and 32 against the bill presented by Mathilde Panot [présidente du groupe La France insoumise] which aims to enshrine in the Constitution the right to voluntary termination of pregnancy. 1is February, this proposal is presented to the Senate.
Collective Abortion in Europe, women decide affirms today that enshrining the right to abortion in the French Constitution will be a powerful political act for women’s rights in France and symbolically in the world.
When the Supreme Court of the United States of America struck down, in June 2022, the Roe vs Wade, it is women’s rights that have been attacked not only in this country but also around the world. This decision has cruelly demonstrated that an acquired right is never fully acquired, including when it comes to a right as fundamental for women as that of freely choosing their maternity ward. “Never forget that all it takes is an economic or religious crisis for women’s rights to be called into question”already wrote Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986).
Effective access throughout the territory
After the decision of the United States to let each State legislate in the matter, President Emmanuel Macron undertook to enshrine this right in the French Constitution. The time has come for him to fulfill this political commitment.
In France, since the vote of the Veil law in 1975, this right has evolved positively in the direction of its expansion towards more freedom and free choice for women. We welcome it, like a large majority of the French population. According to a July 2022 IFOP survey83% of the French men and women questioned judge positively the authorization of abortion by law and 78% of them believe that a “woman must have the right to abort freely”.
It is to guarantee this right, so that it is sustainable and effective for all women who do not wish to continue a pregnancy, that it must be enshrined in the Constitution and that an investment plan in the public hospital service be planned. for effective access throughout the territory. It’s a question of democracy!
Extreme right and religious fundamentalism
In the United States, many women, including the most precarious, are sent back to clandestine practices that endanger their health and future fertility. In Poland, at least three women have died from not being able to have an abortion. In several European countries, women are confronted with increasingly restrictive and liberticidal laws… Faced with such realities, the inclusion of the right to abortion in the Constitution is, everywhere in the world, an essential democratic guarantee. France cannot avoid it.
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