“I am very moved, it’s a great day”, reacts MP Sandrine Rousseau

The MP will take part in the vote on Monday afternoon during the Versailles Congress to explicitly include voluntary termination of pregnancy (abortion) in the Constitution. A world first.

“I’m very moved, it’s a great day”reacts Monday March 4 on franceinfo, Sandrine Rousseau, environmentalist deputy for the 9th district of Paris, while Parliament meets in Congress to register the “freedom guaranteed” of abortion in the Constitution.

“We are going to go to Versailles for a fundamental right which is the freedom of women to dispose of their bodies”adds the elected official known for her feminist commitment. “And it is also written into the Constitution that freedom is not expressed in quite the same way when you are a man and when you are a woman”she says.

The deputy, like other parliamentarians, will participate in the Congress vote dressed in white, “in solidarity with the American Democratic deputies who returned to Congress in white in memory of the suffragettes (…) it’s like an international feminist”. “This vote is also a message sent to Americans, to Hungarians, to all women throughout the world who cannot have access to abortion”she believes.

Revalorizing the gesture: “It’s an honor”

On the practical level of access to abortion, sometimes made difficult by the lack of health professionals, the MP believes that“we have the same problem as in psychiatry or other means”. She asks “raise salaries” practitioners and “valorize” this gesture, in “saying that it is an honor to respond to this freedom and the will of women”.

She doesn’t want “return to the conscience clause”which allows professionals to refuse to perform an abortion. “But we know that the exercise of this clause also depends on a form of general atmosphere. So let’s say it: ‘it is a fundamental right, the people who allow women to exercise it honor the Constitution “. She concludes: “Go ahead, don’t be afraid to have an abortion, get involved! We need committed people.”