The march towards a possible inclusion of abortion in the Constitution continues on Wednesday January 24 from 3 p.m. in the National Assembly, with a debate in the hemicycle in view of a Congress of Parliament at the beginning of March. But this established path could be hampered in the Senate by the reluctance of the right and President Gérard Larcher. The deputies will stick to a debate on the merits, the solemn vote taking place on January 30. Follow our live stream.
Several ministers on the bench including the Minister of Justice. In the middle of the afternoon, the political forces will take the podium one after the other, the vast majority in support of the government’s text, which aims to prevent challenges to abortion as in the United States. He will be defended by several ministers including Minister of Justice Eric Dupond-Moretti.
A vote which should be without surprise in the Assembly. Adoption should not pose a problem for the Assembly, which was largely in favor at the end of 2022 of a proposal from Mathilde Panot (LFI) going in the same direction. She planned to establish a “right” for abortion. A few months later, the senators adopted their wording in a much closer vote, devoting a “freedom” rather than a “right”.
The executive’s passageway. For a constitutional revision to be adopted by the meeting of the two chambers of Congress, they must accept the same formulation, the Assembly not having for once the last word. To find a way forward, the government will propose its wording: enshrine the “guaranteed” freedom of recourse to abortion. It remains to be convinced and the senators, and in particular the influential LR President of the Senate Gérard Larcher, who said on Tuesday that he was opposed to the constitutionalization of abortion, arguing that it was not “not threatened” In France