“I don’t think the country is fractured on the issue of abortion,” says socialist senator Laurence Rossignol

The Senate is considering the inclusion of voluntary termination of pregnancy (abortion) in the Constitution, Wednesday February 28. For the socialist senator of Oise, Laurence Rossignol, this text is “important, first of all from a Franco-French point of view”. “That is to say that no one can say today that abortion is protected over time, for as long as we could hope”she explains in 12/13 info. “We know thatin France, there is a threat from the far right in our country, it is serious. And the far right, everywhere in the world, has in common that it is hostile to women’s freedoms and rights.adds Laurence Rossignol.

CNews “treated millions of women as criminals”

“I don’t think that the country is fractured on the question of abortion. I think that on the contrary, we have a country which is extremely solid, at 85%, consistently, in favor of this right. And we are first protected by this citizen shield”, believes the socialist senator. Laurence Rossignol then discusses the controversy surrounding the CNews channel, on which abortion was described as the leading cause of death in the world. The news channel pleaded error and apologized. “This channel has called millions of women criminals”she says, before concluding: “In any case, vigilance is constant against the adversaries of abortion.”