A few days ago, Gérard Larcher made comments that quickly became viral and controversial. The President of the Senate affirmed that he was opposed to the constitutionalization of the voluntary termination of pregnancy, believing that societal subjects were not intended to appear in the Constitution. An opinion which was quickly pointed out by many personalities, including Sophie Marceau. The French’s favorite actress went very far in her rant on Instagram, accusing the politician of being disconnected from the reality of what women forced to have an abortion experience: “Of course abortion is threatened! Like the fate of women who cannot have recourse to it and whom you put in danger of death” she denounced, while reproaching Gérard Larcher for being “retrograde and hypocritical”.
Guest of Quelle époque this Saturday February 3, 2024, Gérard Larcher justified himself and reaffirmed his support for all women forced to have an abortionr : “Let her come with me to see in what conditions it is sometimes done”explained the man who, in the past, directed the Rambouillet hospital. The President of the Senate assures that he has no problem with abortion, but believes that its constitutionalization can open the way to the constitutionalization of other societal subjects. Comments that quickly made the actress and activist Marie s’infiltre jump: “I don’t understand this pettiness that it would be necessary to include a right which remains a fragile right, which remains a right which we acquired very late, and with very difficulty, and which today, we know very well, to abort for a woman, even if there is a woman, it is something very complicated. A lot of people will disincentivize her.”
Gérard Larcher denies being “stingy”
“I don’t understand why there is this little stingy side, ‘the constitution is not everything and anything’. It’s not just anything we’re talking about! We are talking about a woman’s freedom to dispose of her body, and her security“ continued Marie infiltrates a lively exchange in which Gérard Larcher responded: “It’s not stingy”. For the politician, who says above all “constitutionalist”the question is not to constitutionalize a social fact, but to resolve the problems surrounding the medical monitoring of an interruption of pregnancy, which often results from trauma, such as rape or abandonment of a partner.