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7:22 p.m., February 28, 2024
The Minister of Justice Eric Dupond-Moretti called on the Senate on Wednesday to “collectively live up to popular expectations” by being in favor of including abortion in the Constitution while senators will have to decide and that the debates promise to be tense.
The Minister of Justice Eric Dupond-Moretti called on the Senate on Wednesday to “collectively live up to popular expectations” by being in favor of including abortion in the Constitution.
“The French are watching us and waiting for us all to collectively live up to popular expectations, live up to past struggles, live up to the universal vocation of France,” launched the Minister of Justice before a vote in suspense in the upper house on the constitutionalization of a “guaranteed freedom” for voluntary termination of pregnancy.
“In no way an enforceable right”
The inclusion in the Constitution of the “guaranteed freedom” of women to have recourse to a voluntary termination of pregnancy “in no way creates an enforceable right”, also affirmed Wednesday the Minister of Justice Eric Dupond-Moretti, responding to a concern of right-wing senators.
“I want to reassure you right away, and in particular Senator (Philippe) Bas, this term should not worry you because contrary to what I have heard it does not in any way create an enforceable right,” he said. -he declared, during the examination of a constitutional bill on the subject in the upper house. Philippe Bas tabled an amendment proposing to delete the term “guarantee” from the text.