While the American Supreme Court has decided to revoke the right to abortion across the Atlantic, the leaders of the LFI and LREM groups in the assembly, Mathilde Panot and Aurore Bergé have announced their intention to file a constitutional bill. so that in France this right to abortion is engraved in stone.
Asked Sunday June 26 on BFMTV, the boss of the Modem, François Bayrou explained that he was not in favor of it. “Is it good, is it useful to do this, even though, to my knowledge, no political current questions the Veil law”he argued.
Right to abortion: François Bayrou questions the usefulness of an inscription in the French Constitution pic.twitter.com/HEnipilmER
— BFMTV (@BFMTV) June 26, 2022
If we stick to the official programs of the presidential election, it is correct to say that no party has proposed to reconsider the right to abortion framed by the Veil law. If, in 2002, Jean-Marie Le Pen included in the program of the National Front his desire to repeal the laws on abortion, Marine Le Pen, twenty years later, does not propose it. This does not prevent ambiguous positions. In 2012, Marine Le Pen advocated the reimbursement of abortion to avoid what she called “comfort abortions“. She maintains today that she does not want a step back on the Veil law. Her right arm, Jordan Bardella even speaks of a “acquired to protect”. In 2021, the RN still fought strongly against the extension of the period for recourse to abortion. The elected members of the National Rally were not the only ones opposed to this development, however. The text which planned to extend the legal period of access to abortion from 12 to 14 weeks experienced a long parliamentary tussle and took nearly a year and a half to be definitively adopted.
The leader of the LREM deputies, Aurore Bergé, also judged that it was not necessary “take no risk” and securing the right to abortion, accusing some new RN deputies of being “fierce opponents of women’s access to abortion”.
In fact, we find in the brand new assembly RN deputies who have displayed their hostility to abortion, such as, for example, the RN deputy for Haute-Marne, Christophe Bentz. In 2011, during a “March for Life”, he compared abortion to a “mass genocide”. The deputy still shared in 2021 posters of this annual event against abortion. This anti-abortion movement has already reacted on Twitter by assuring that it would oppose “with all of his strenght” to the inclusion of abortion in the Constitution.
The president of the LREM group at the National Assembly, @aurorebergeannounces the filing of a bill to include “respect
abortion in our Constitution”.The March for Life will oppose it with all its might.
— March For Life (@MarchePourLaVie) June 25, 2022