Towards adoption of the text without modification? On Wednesday February 28, senators examined the project to include the right to abortion in the Constitution, an undecided but essential step before Parliament meets in Congress. From the Luxembourg Palace, the Minister of Justice, Eric Dupond-Moretti, called on senators to be “lived up to popular expectations”. At the start of the evening, the upper house of Parliament voted against an amendment from Philippe Bas (LR), who proposed removing the word “guarantee” to the sentence “the law determines the conditions under which the freedom guaranteed to a woman to have recourse to a voluntary termination of pregnancy is exercised”. This amendment was rejected by 214 votes against, and 104 votes for. Follow the debates in our live stream.
An amendment on the conscience clause rejected. On Wednesday evening, senators also rejected an amendment from Alain Milon (LR), which aimed to include in the text a conscience clause for doctors. It was rejected by 219 votes against and 85 votes in favor.
Will the senatorial majority vote on the text as is? The debates promised to be tense at the Palais du Luxembourg. On the one hand, the government supported by the left in favor of this revision promised by Emmanuel Macron. On the other, part of the right and centrists still skeptical of the formulation adopted by the executive. The text submitted to the vote of the 348 senators, according to which “the law determines the conditions under which the freedom guaranteed to a woman to have recourse to a voluntary termination of pregnancy is exercised”always irritates the ranks of the Republicans a little.
Right-wing amendments rejected in the law committee. The “for” camp is beginning to firmly believe in the green light from the Senate: Wednesday morning, the Senate Law Committee in fact rejected all the editorial modification amendments tabled by the right, according to several parliamentarians.
A Congress at the beginning of next week in the event of a favorable vote. If the senators adopt the text in the same terms as the National Assembly, Parliament must meet in Congress early Monday afternoon, according to information from France Télévisions.