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IVG in the Constitution: the National Assembly examines the bill
IVG in the Constitution: the National Assembly examines the bill – (franceinfo)
The National Assembly is debating from Wednesday January 24 the bill aimed at including abortion in the Constitution. Gérard Larcher, president of the Senate, expressed his reservations
Feminist associations have been calling for this text for years: engraving access to voluntary termination of pregnancy (abortion) in the stone of the Constitution. Finally, it is under the term of freedom and not of rights that this bill will be debated in the National Assembly, from Wednesday January 24. The adoption of the text in the Assembly should be a formality, but the debate in the Senate could be more eventful.
A right threatened in several countries
Several elected representatives of the Republicans (LR) expressed reservations, such as Gérard Larcher, president LR of the Senate. “The right to abortion is not threatened in our country. (…) The Constitution is not a catalog of social and societal rights”, he estimated. However, for many feminists, this entry into the Constitution is more than a symbol. Today, the right to abortion is threatened in several countries. To EUnited States, it is banned in some states.
