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On this Thursday, September 28, World Abortion Day, women’s rights defenders recall that nothing is ever taken for granted and are calling for the right to abortion to be included in the Constitution. Live from Place de la République in Paris, demonstrators are mobilized for this cause.
On the evening of Thursday, September 28, more than a thousand demonstrators gathered at Place de la République, in Paris, to defend the right to abortion. This is particularly the case of Suzy Rojtman, spokesperson for the abortion collective in Europe and one of the organizers of the event.
“Protect abortion”
According to her, the inclusion of abortion in the Constitution “would make abortion a fundamental right. The Constitution is the text of the values of the Republic, things which are normally inalienable, which found the Republic. And including abortion in the Constitution would really aim to protect abortion“, says Suzy Rojtman. Today, in France, the right to abortion “is not threatened frontally. But there are many things that worry us“, she continues, emphasizing in particular the presence “Again“of opponents of abortion, notably in Paris or Lyon (Rhône).