It is a symbolic date that owes nothing to chance. On Wednesday 17 January, exactly forty-nine years after the promulgation of the Veil law which decriminalized abortion, the bill on the constitutionalisation of voluntary termination of pregnancy (IVG) recorded important progress. Meeting in the law commission, the deputies approved the inclusion in the Constitution of “guaranteed freedom” for a woman to have an abortion.
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The adoption of the text is still far from being achieved
But nothing has yet been achieved for the supporters of this important constitutional reform for women’s rights. The text will still have to be examined on January 24 in the hemicycle, where the LR and RN deputies have already expressed their concerns about the wording. “This fundamental freedom (…) is not threatened in France”, said Pascale Bordes, deputy of the RN. To which the rapporteur of the text Guillaume Gouffier replied that it is, on the contrary, questioned in the world and “in France through attacks against associations such as family planning”.
The text will then pass to the Senate on February 26, where new difficulties await it, given that the Chamber is dominated by the right and the center.
On Tuesday, Justice Minister Éric Dupond-Moretti welcomed the adoption of a text ” balance “. “The objective of this project is to guarantee constitutional protection to this freedom without freezing the current legislation”said the Minister of Justice, specifying that the text aims to prevent “that the legislator may one day ban any use of abortion or drastically restrict the conditions of access”.
If the text is adopted by the Senate – which is far from certain – a congress will be convened on March 5, bringing together parliamentarians in Versailles, for the definitive adoption a few days before International Women’s Rights Day. Adoption will require the text to receive 3/5And voices.
A right to abortion not better protected according to the associations
For their part, feminist associations are far from satisfied with the text, which prefers the term ” freedom “ to abort to that of ” right “.
“Freedom means leaving the choice to decide to the law”Mathilde Philip-Gay, professor of law at the Jean Moulin Lyon 3 University, explained to us last February. “The difference between right and freedom is therefore subtle, because it means that the conditions of access to abortion could be called into question by laws that would modify them, for example, in the case of a new, more radical government. The text voted by the Senate therefore has a symbolic meaning, but legally it changes nothing and, if these terms are maintained, the right to abortion will not be better protected. »
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Source: Madmoizelle
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