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IVG in the Constitution: “More than 90% of French men and women are attached to the right to abortion”, recalls the president of the Women’s Foundation
Senators vote on the inclusion of voluntary termination of pregnancy (abortion) in the Constitution, on the evening of Wednesday February 28. On this occasion, Anne-Cécile Mailfert, president of the Women’s Foundation, is the guest of 19/20 info. – (franceinfo)
Senators vote on the inclusion of voluntary termination of pregnancy (abortion) in the Constitution, on the evening of Wednesday February 28. On this occasion, Anne-Cécile Mailfert, president of the Women’s Foundation, is the guest of 19/20 info.
A highly anticipated vote will be held in the Senate on the evening of Wednesday February 28: that on the inclusion of voluntary termination of pregnancy (abortion) in the Constitution. Guest of 19/20 info, Anne-Cécile Mailfert, president of the Women’s Foundation, discusses “a subject that is extremely influential in society”. “When we look at the polls, more than 90% of French men and women are attached to the right to abortion, 86% want it to be constitutionalized, so it is a huge plebiscite for the work which is in the process of being be carried out at this moment of constitutionalization“, she illustrates.
A “necessary, essential step”
Recalling that in the event of adoption in the Senate, the text will still have to be adopted by the two chambers of Parliament meeting in Congress, Anne-Cécile Mailfert describes the vote at the Luxembourg Palace in the evening as‘”necessary, essential step”. The meeting of Congress should take place Monday March 4 if the text passes the Senate.
But if the senators “block” Wednesday evening, “it will explode this timing, and as a result, it will postpone the constitutionalization project a little indefinitely”she fears. “In any case, it is certain that it is a decisive step to succeed in passing Congress, and if this step passes, for me, abortion in the Constitution becomes palpable”, adds the president of the Women’s Foundation.
