“Across the world, including major democracies, including our European neighbors, we are seeing the decline of abortion rights and women’s rights. To the rise of those who deny women the freedom to love, to choose, to live free. So, as the unthinkable happens, we had to affect the irreversible. »
This Friday 8 March, under the gold of Place Vendôme, Emmanuel Macron participated in the ceremony to seal the inclusion of voluntary termination of pregnancy (IVG) in the Constitution, thus keeping the promise made a year ago, to the International Organization of Woman. Day.
Include the right to abortion in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union
It was the Minister of Justice, Éric Dupond-Moretti, who put the seal of the Republic on the law, making effective the “guaranteed freedom” of all women to dispose of their own bodies.
A tribute to parliamentarians “everywhere” who worked for this constitutionalization of abortion, including Aurore Bergé, Mathilde Panot, Laurence Rossignol, Laurence Cohen and Mélanie Vogel, the President of the Republic recalled that if “France has become the only country in the world whose Constitution explicitly protects” right to abortion, now we must go further. “We will find rest only when this promise is fulfilled everywhere in the world”He added.
This is why Emmanuel Macron announced that he wanted to register “this guaranteed freedom to resort to voluntary termination of pregnancy in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union”. This initiative was immediately welcomed by LFI MP Mathilde Panot, interviewed by BFMTV.
“In the arms of citizens”
The sealing ceremony also featured a feminist rendition of Catherine Ringer’s “La Marseillaise.” “To arms, citizens, citizens”sang the former Rita Mitsouko, who also replaced the “Let impure blood irrigate our furrows” of our national anthem “Let us sing this pure law in the Constitution”. His initiative was warmly applauded by the public, as you can see in the video below:
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