“The law determines the conditions under which the freedom guaranteed to a woman to have recourse to a voluntary termination of pregnancy is exercised. [IVG] » : this is the wording which will now be included in article 34 of the Constitution. With 780 votes against 72the parliamentarians, meeting in Congress in Versailles on Monday March 4, largely fulfilled the condition of three-fifths of the votes cast necessary for the adoption of any constitutional revision.
When the results were announced by the President (Renaissance) of the Congress, Yaël Braun-Pivet, the exultation of the parliamentarians was equal to the historic and symbolic significance of such a vote. “French pride, universal message”, welcomed the head of state, Emmanuel Macron, on X, shortly after the positive vote of deputies and senators. France thus becomes the first country in the world to formally include abortion in its Constitution.
This election is the culmination of an eighteen-month parliamentary process during which many elected officials, relays of feminist associations, have redoubled their commitment to defend the inclusion in the Basic Law of the freedom of women to dispose of their body. And for the first time in history, a woman, in this case the President of the National Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet, chaired a meeting of the Congress, moreover for a constitutional revision taking place almost fifty after the vote of the Veil law, which at the time legalized the use of abortion. What M did not fail to emphasizeme Braun-Pivet, addressing “to the women of the world”: “We say that we will support them and that we will always be at their side. »
In the hemicycle of the Congress hall, the atmosphere is solemn at the start of the session, at 3:30 p.m. The parliamentarians placed in alphabetical order and no longer by belonging to their political group are part of this scenography of harmony nationality that the meeting of this assembly embodies.
In an address lasting around ten minutes, the Prime Minister, Gabriel Attal, recalled the journeys of lawyer Gisèle Halimi and Simone Veil and their fight for the legalization of abortion, before proclaiming his ” determination ” has “act for the cause of equality”. “ How many congresses of Parliament brought about such unity? How many congresses of Parliament gave rise to such emotion? How many congresses of Parliament allowed the inclusion of an essential right for women? How many congresses were the scene, not of political jousts, but of unity, gratitude and the writing of a common destiny? “, launched the head of government under the gaze of former ministers for gender equality or women’s rights Isabelle Lonvis-Rome, Elisabeth Moreno and Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, present for this unique session.
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