A delicate and decisive step for the constitutionalization of abortion. The Upper House, on Wednesday evening, February 28, approved this inclusion in the Constitution of “guaranteed freedom” women of“resort to voluntary termination of pregnancy”. The text was approved in an unchanged version after its passage in the Assembly, with 267 votes in favor and 50 votes against.
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Rejection of the right-wing amendments
Already adopted almost unanimously by the National Assembly on January 30, this constitutional revision, however, would not have obtained the necessary votes in the Senate. The revision text was finally approved after more than three hours of discussions, at times heated, in which the three leaders of the senatorial majority, including Senate President Gérard Larcher, expressed their opposition to the reform.
Eventually the reluctance was resolved and the senators rejected an amendment presented by LR Senator Philippe Bas, who proposed to eliminate the term “guarantee” from the sentence “The law determines the conditions under which the freedom guaranteed to a woman to resort to voluntary termination of pregnancy is exercised”. Another rejection: that of an amendment to insert the conscience clause for doctors into the Constitution.
“A decisive step” for women’s rights
On X (formerly Twitter), Emmanuel Macron” happiness” From “not decisive” made today by the Senate and announced that it will convene Parliament in Congress at the Palace of Versailles on Monday 4 March for a final vote. A three-fifths majority is required for the text to be definitively adopted. However, there is no doubt that the inclusion of abortion in the Constitution will be adopted.
Prime Minister Gabriel Attal welcomed a “extraordinary progress” while Justice Minister Éric Dupond-Moretti was happy to see the Senate write “a historical page of women’s rights”.
The left-wing opposition also reacted to X. This was expressed by senator and former minister for women’s rights Laurence Rossignol “immense happiness” is dedicated “this vote for millions of women around the world who are denied this right”.
EELV Senator Mélanie Vogel recalled this “Historic feminist victory” it was above all “that of feminists, associations and activists who have not given up” while the LFI deputy Mathilde Panot wrote it with sobriety “France will become the first state in the world to guarantee the right to abortion”.
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