What will remain after the announcement effects? In France, the debate on the right to voluntary termination of pregnancy (IVG) has resurfaced as Friday, June 24, the Supreme Court of the United States returned to the historic judgment Roe vs Wade, authorizing the States to determine their own abortion policy. They are already more than a dozen to have banned the practice on their territory. French elected officials, on the left and on the right, were moved by this setback in terms of freedoms. ” A slap “ for the deputy La République en Marche (LRM) from Essonne, Marie-Pierre Rixain, also president of the women’s rights delegation to the National Assembly. “We know that women’s rights are totems for far-right movements but also populists and reactionaries as soon as they come to power”she recalls.
A few hours after the announcement of the American judges, the deputy and the president of the LRM group, Aurore Bergé, tabled a proposal for a constitutional law to include in the fundamental law, in article 66-2, that “No one may be deprived of the right to voluntary termination of pregnancy”. A formulation partly taken from another socialist bill brought in 2019 by ex-MP Luc Carvounas.
In April 2018, the Minister of Health, Agnès Buzyn, brushed aside the idea of including the right to abortion in the Constitution for “avoid legislative inflation at all costs, a fortiori in constitutional matters” during the consideration of a Communist bill in the Senate. A few months later, in July, the president of the law commission, Yaël Braun-Pivet, had declared, during a session devoted to the draft constitutional law, that there was no “There is no need to brandish fears based on the situation of these rights in other countries to affirm that they would be threatened in ours” in response to amendments from the La France insoumise (LFI) group on this subject.
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Today, the Macronist deputies, showing much more energy in societal debates than the Head of State, could manage to impose their will with the support of the left and certain figures of the right, as during the adoption of the law on the extension of the abortion period from twelve to fourteen weeks promulgated on March 3, against the advice of Mr. Macron. The approach is now supported by two members of the government and not the least, the Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, who assured to support “ with force this bill »and the Keeper of the Seals, Eric Dupont-Moretti. “Engraving this fundamental right in stone in our Constitution is more necessary than ever in these dark times”, he tweeted on Saturday.
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