Despite the reluctance of some right- and center-wing senators, who have a majority in the Senate, 267 members voted in favor of the measure and 50 against the measure that would make France the first country in the world to include the right to voluntary abortion. In the constitution..
The French Senate today approved the inclusion of abortion in the constitution, removing recent doubts surrounding the final, historic adoption of the procedure during Congress that will meet on Monday in Versailles.
Despite the reluctance of some right- and center-wing senators, who have a majority in the Senate, 267 members voted in favor of the measure and 50 against the measure that would make France the first country in the world to include the right to voluntary abortion. In the constitution..
“After the National Assembly, the Senate is taking a decisive step that I welcome. For the final vote, I will convene Parliament in Congress [senadores e deputados] “On March 4th,” French President Emmanuel Macron wrote on the X network.
Justice Minister Eric Dupond-Moretti opened the debate in the Senate by speaking of a “historic day” for making France “the first country in the world to protect in its constitution a woman’s freedom to dispose of her body.”
Thus, Macron achieved a moment of harmony in a state where he faced many difficulties in implementing his measures, with widespread opposition to some laws such as pension reform or immigration law.
The constitutional review will amend Article 34, which will now include “ensuring women’s freedom to resort to voluntary termination of pregnancy.”
Although he admitted that the right to abortion was not currently threatened in France, the Minister of Justice considered it necessary to register abortion so that “the majority in the future will not be able to question it.”
Eric Dupond-Moretti pointed to the case of the United States, as well as that of Hungary or Poland, where conservative parties have restricted the right to abortion, and stressed that this might also happen in France in the future.
After the Council approved it at the end of January by an overwhelming majority, a more tense debate was expected in the Senate due to its more conservative composition.
As senators debated, a small group of anti-abortion activists demonstrated outside the Senate, while others, a little further away, demonstrated in favor of the new procedure.
For the text to be finally approved, it still needs a three-fifths majority of senators and representatives, but the most sensitive stage of the process was passed today.
As the law becomes enshrined, it will be more difficult to amend, as changing the constitution again requires a three-fifths majority.
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