France is preparing to become the first country in the world to explicitly include voluntary termination of pregnancy (abortion) in its Constitution? Parliament meets on Monday March 4 in Congress at the Château de Versailles. He must examine the “freedom guaranteeing the woman to have recourse to a voluntary termination of pregnancy” and choose whether or not to ratify the inclusion of this reform in the Constitution. It will be adopted with a three-fifths majority of the votes cast by deputies and senators. “There is no suspense”said the President of the National Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet, on France 2. Follow our live stream.
The session will begin at 3:30 p.m. and voting will be open for 45 minutes. “The explanations of vote, lasting five minutes, will take place alternately between the groups of the National Assembly and the Senate, in descending order of their respective numbers”explains the National Assembly.
“Historical”, according to the majority and the opposition. “Often, we have perhaps overused the word ‘historical’ but here I believe it is appropriate”estimated Aurore Bergé, Minister responsible for Equality between women and men. “It’s rare, these moments in political history, when you know that you are writing the history of France and the world”, declared Mathilde Panot, the leader of the Insoumis deputies. Include abortion in the Constitution, “it tells all those who fought for the right to choose their life that they have definitely won”judged environmentalist senator Mélanie Vogel.
Favorable vote from the Senate. The inclusion of abortion in the Constitution has already passed its most delicate stage in Parliament on Wednesday with the favorable vote of elected officials at the Luxembourg Palace.
Emmanuel Macron plans to participate in a ceremony on March 8. The President of the Republic plans to participate and speak at the ceremony of sealing the Constitution by the Minister of Justice, after Congress has voted to include voluntary termination of pregnancy in the Constitution, franceinfo has learned with those around him. This ceremony is scheduled for this Friday, March 8, on the occasion of International Women’s Rights Day.