Vanessa Paradis, Béatrice Dalle, Audrey Pulvar …. 343 women demand an extension of the abortion period: Femme Actuelle Le MAG


The date is not chosen by chance. Sunday April 4, 2021 – eve of April 5 and date fifty years ago was published on Manifesto of 343 women who had the courage to abort illegally in the New Obs and parodied in 2013343 women, feminist activists, musicians, actresses and politicians are now calling for the extension of the time limits for resorting to abortion in France beyond 12 weeks in a platform of Sunday newspaper published on April 4, 2021. “Fifty years later, we are 343 women and people who can experience a pregnancy to declare having aborted beyond the French legal deadlines” assume these 343 famous women or not, and sometimes anonymous. In France, the legal deadline for abortion authorized since 1975 following the Veil law is in fact set at 12 weeks, or three months. It extends to fourteen weeks in Spain, sixteen in Sweden and even twenty-two weeks of pregnancy in the Netherlands or the United Kingdom.

Audrey Pulvar, Corinne Masiero or Audrey Pulvar also sign

Among them are also the actresses Julie Gayet, Corinne Masiero who had undressed during the César 2021 to support culture, Laure Calamy, Marina Foïs, Zabou Breitman, Anna Mouglalis, Alexandra Lamy, the singers Juliette Armanet, Yaël Naïm, Barbara Carlotti, directors Catherine Corsini, Andréa Bescond, journalists Léa Drucker, Maïa Mazaurette, as well as politicians and activists Marie-Noëlle Lienemann, Clémentine Autain, Audrey Pulvar, Assa Traoré, Alice Coffin or Caroline De Haas …

“In relation to abortion, the law has set the limit: twelve weeks of pregnancy. Beyond that, the remedies are limited and conditioned”, on the one hand to “doctors who then decide on the medical necessity of terminating a pregnancy” And on the other hand “to our socio-economic situation”, they sign. “Affected people endowed with resources will be able to travel abroad, to countries whose more progressive laws will allow them to have an abortion in safe conditions.”

“I demand real mastery of my body, I demand respect for my body”

“Finally, deprived of their right to dispose of their body, there are these women forced to pursue an unwanted pregnancy. This violence is inflicted in silence and indifference.”, also denounces the text. “In solidarity with all these women, I declare that I am one of them. I declare that I have had an abortion. In France. Abroad. Beyond the French legal deadline. I could be one of them. I am united. I demand real control of my body, I demand respect for my body, my rights and my choices, I demand the extension of the legal time limits for access to abortion ” , concludes the forum of JDD.

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