France officially becomes the first country in the world to include the right to abortion in its Constitution

This is a historic decision that Parliament has just taken in Congress in Versailles this Monday, March 4, 2024. While the project to include voluntary termination of pregnancy in the Constitution has been raised for many months by the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, it’s finally done! Even if the text had been previously approved by the National Assembly and the Senate, it still had to pass the Congress stage.

If it was necessary to bring together the two chambers to obtain a three-fifths majority of parliamentarians in order to modify the Constitution and include “ freedom guaranteed to women to have recourse to an abortion », this Monday March 4, 2024 marks the history of a red cross! It was around 3:30 p.m. after an illustrious debate that the 925 parliamentarians who made up the hemicycle adopted this text.

A notorious decision that marks history

The context around voluntary termination of pregnancy has been very complicated in the world for several months. While the Supreme Court in the United States revoked this fundamental right by leaving the choice to states to authorize or not the right to abortion and in Italy groups “pro-life » launched a petition to modify the law by referendum, in France voices were raised to protect this right obtained through a hard struggle by Simone Veil in 1975.

Many French personalities have also supported this decision expressed for the first time by the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron in January 2022, like Catherine Lara who shared her experience facing Jordan de Luxe last December. After a first step on Wednesday February 28, 2024 and the positive vote of the Senators, the text approving the introduction of the right to abortion in the Constitution was approved by the Congress in front of the President of the National Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet .

780 parliamentarians approved its inclusion

If a few days ago, abortion was shaken up again after a debate during the showIn search of spiriton CNews during which the speakers described the voluntary termination of pregnancy as being the “leading cause of death in the world» quickly leading to apologies from the channel, all this is ultimately just a bad memory. The phrase : “The law determines the conditions under which the freedom guaranteed to a woman to have recourse to a voluntary termination of pregnancy is exercised.» was therefore approved to be added to Article 34 of the Constitution.

Out of all 925 parliamentarians, only 72 voted against, “French pride» for the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, who spoke very quickly on X (formerly Twitter). A message that begins with “French pride, universal message »and which he goes on to officially announce the date of sealing: “Let us celebrate together the entry of a new freedom guaranteed in the Constitution by the first sealing ceremony in our history open to the public. See you this March 8, International Women’s Rights Day.» A historic day for France, but also in the world, as France becomes the first country to officially include the right to abortion in its Constitution.

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