The constitutional bill to include abortion in the Constitution is expected on Wednesday January 24 in the hemicycle of the National Assembly, a parliamentary source indicated on Tuesday. The text will be presented this Tuesday to the Council of Ministers.
The constitutional bill to include abortion in the Constitution is expected on Wednesday January 24 in the hemicycle of the National Assembly, a parliamentary source indicated on Tuesday. The text is presented to the Council of Ministers this Tuesday. At the Palais Bourbon, the conference of presidents, which brings together the main leaders of the Assembly, included it on the agenda for the January 24 session, subject to its tabling.
According to the explanatory memorandum of the draft constitutional law (PJLC), it will be the “guaranteed freedom” for women to resort to abortion which would appear in the fundamental law, rather than the “right to abortion” which had the favors of women’s rights activists.
The date of March 4 mentioned to organize a Congress
“The law determines the conditions under which a woman’s freedom is exercised, which is guaranteed to her, to have recourse to a voluntary termination of pregnancy”, we can read in the text of which AFP obtained a copy. copy. After the examination in the Assembly and the Senate, 3/5th of the deputies and senators, gathered during the Congress, would need to endorse the formulation. In a letter addressed to party leaders in November, Emmanuel Macron mentioned the date of March 4 for this Congress meeting.