“I hope with all my heart that on Monday, Congress will definitively adopt it, declares Éric Dupond-Moretti

“It has been 15 years since we touched the Constitution and we are doing it for the freedom of women, there is symbolism,” underlines the Minister of Justice.

“I hope with all my heart that Monday”Congress will ratify the inclusion in the Constitution of “freedom guaranteed” for women to have recourse to abortion, declared Thursday February 29 on franceinfo the Minister of Justice, Éric Dupond-Moretti. For this, a three-fifths majority of the votes cast by the deputies and senators who will be gathered in the Congress Hall of the Palace of Versailles is required.

“If we look at the figures as they were expressed in the Assembly, as they were expressed in the Senate, I think there should be no difficulty”, says the Minister of Justice. Since then, “we will be the only country in the world” to constitutionalize abortion, welcomes Éric Dupond-Moretti. He believes that with the favorable vote of the Senate on Wednesday “was a historic day, without overusing words.” The Minister of Justice welcomes “this transpartisan desire” to register this “fundamental freedom for women to control their bodies” In “the supreme law”, our Constitution. “It has been 15 years since we touched the Constitution and we are doing it for the freedom of women, there is symbolism”, he rejoices.

However, certain senators from the right and the center, who have a majority in the upper house, were very reluctant. Many argue that the right to abortion “is not threatened” In France. “Should we wait until abortion is threatened to react? I prefer to anticipate”, retorts Éric Dupond-Moretti, who however does not want “to be the prosecutor in a stale suit against the Senate”.

On the contrary, the Minister of Justice “feared” that “this right, this freedom will be discussed by others later”. He recalls that the CNews channel has associated “the number of abortions to the number of cancer deaths and tobacco-related deaths”. He also quotes Reconquête senator, Stéphane Ravier. This “zemourist who comes out of Marine Le Pen’s stable” East “clearly against abortion” and he is “in flesh and blood the illustration that there are threats”. Thus, with the inscription of the “freedom guaranteed” to resort to abortion in the Constitution, a “repeal of the Veil law will not be possible” And “we cannot drastically change the rules that already govern.”