76 parliamentarians call for the adoption of the extension of the legal deadline for abortion

If on October 9, the deputies voted to extend the legal deadline for abortion from 12 to 14 weeks of pregnancy, the text is still not in the Senate. On Sunday, many parliamentarians called on the government to speed up the adoption of the bill.

On October 9, 2020, MEPs voted on a first reading bill to extend the legal period for accessing voluntary termination of pregnancy from 12 to 14 weeks of pregnancy. The government had then shown great caution in the face of a text carried by the EDS group (Ecology, democracy, solidarity), composed of ex-LREM of the left wing who has since disappeared, and supported by the left and the LREM group. The Minister of Health Olivier Véran had admitted that he was not "not sure" that this bill "go to the end ".

This Sunday, November 8, it is not less than 76 parliamentarians mainly left but also the majority who ask in a forum, published in the Sunday Newspaper, that the government accelerate the adoption of the bill aiming to extend the legal deadline for abortion.

"The right to abortion is the target of a planetary conservative offensive. In France, equality between women and men has been established as a major cause of the five-year term. However, this fundamental right is also under attack. are social and territorial inequalities in access to abortion, denounced by health professionals and associations that have supported women for years. It is also the refusal by some doctors to perform voluntary termination of pregnancy, which delays sometimes the process. ", start the signatories.

"Individual and collective voices still oppose this text and try to slow down the parliamentary shuttle. We will not let them succeed", assure the parliamentarians, regretting that the adoption of the bill is still not on the agenda of the Senate.

"Some claim that abortion at 14 weeks would be more dangerous for women's health. We recall that our European neighbors are already practicing it well beyond our statutory 12 weeks, and without any particular risk. In addition, it is forget the impact of an unwanted pregnancy on women's health. The complications of continuing a pregnancy – whether medical or psychological – are far greater than those associated with abortion. ", they then explain in the gallery.

"We, parliamentarians committed to the right to abortion, call on the government to take up the bill and put it on the agenda of the Senate, to speed up its adoption (…) Out of respect for democracy parliamentary. And so that abortion is a real right for all women", they say.

Among the signatories, we find the socialists Laurence Rossignol and Marie-Pierre de La Gontrie, who have repeatedly unsuccessfully defended an extension of the deadline for abortion in the Senate as well as PS, LFI, ex-EDS deputies (Emilie Cariou , Guillaume Chiche…), LREM (Emilie Chalas, Jean-Louis Touraine…), MoDem (Erwan Balanant, Richard Ramos), Agir and communist or environmental senators, including Esther Benbassa.

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