a bill to include the right to abortion in the constitution

As soon as the American decision was announced on Friday June 24 to revoke the right to abortion, women came to Paris to express their concern. “It’s extremely scary about the impact it can have in the rest of the world. In France, we have a rise of extremes. We can indeed be afraid that this right will be called into question.“, explains Camille Dechambre, of Amnesty International.

Aborting freely is a hard-won acquired right. A battle in the street, before the courts and then in the assembly. In 1975, a law passed by Simone Veil decriminalized abortion. Elisabeth Badinter, long committed to the right to abortion, is now concerned: “I tell myself that if the country that seems to be at the head of Western democracies is that, we are in great danger. We can’t we not ask ourselves the question of what we would do if it happened to us“.

As of last night, the NUPES made a bill to include the right to abortion in the Constitution. Same thing within the presidential majority. And for once, macronists and mélenchonists are on the same line. In 2019, the presidential majority refused for the second time to enshrine this right in the Constitution. But today, the Prime Minister is asking that this achievement be set in stone.