“More than 90% of French men and women are attached to the right to abortion,” recalls the president of the Women’s Foundation

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.