On Monday 4 March 2024, Parliament registered the inclusion of abortion in the Constitution. THE ” freedom “ women to resort to abortion.
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This constitutional revision involves the insertion of a new paragraph in article 34 of the Constitution: “ The law determines the conditions in which the woman’s freedom, which is guaranteed to her, to resort to voluntary termination of pregnancy is exercised. .
“Trans men who have become pregnant are fully entitled to the right to abortion »
But this ” freedom “ Is it guaranteed for those who want to have an abortion? The associations SOS homophobia and OUTrans will be supervising. In a press release published on March 4, the two groups expressed their desire to give transgender men the same freedom as cisgender women: “Trans men who have become pregnant are fully entitled to the right to abortion guaranteed by the Constitution”they wrote.
Because if the text guarantees this freedom to ” wife “a decision of the Council of State of December 2023 specifies that the freedom to resort to abortion must extend to “any person who has become pregnant, regardless of marital status”.
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“While a more explicit mention of trans men in the text would have been desirable to guarantee them the right to abortion with the same level of protection, SOS Homophobia hopes that the opinion of the Council of State will effectively guarantee this right for trans men »the associations continue, which Thank you all parliamentarians, including the senator Melanie Vogeland we warmly welcome the constitutionalization of abortion.
The association specifies that this will be the case ” Anyway extremely alert on the effective application of the Constitution”, and specifies that “the freedom to resort to abortion must be understood as guaranteed to “anyone who has begun a pregnancy, without consideration of marital status”. »
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