“No woman can be deprived of the right to voluntary interruption of pregnancy”: the brief text adopted this Wednesday, carried by the leader of the Renaissance deputies, Aurore Bergé, must now be examined in the hemicycle the week of November 28.
Another text that proposes to include this right in the fundamental law, proposed by his LFI counterpart Mathilde Panot, must reach the chamber before, on November 24, after a step in the law commission scheduled for November 16.
“This Decisive Step”
“Whatever the group that will have proposed this initiative,” the patron saint of Macronist deputies was delighted that a majority “seems to emerge in the Assembly” on this issue.
“It is not because of the symbol, nor because of political opportunism, it is because it is up to us today to take this decisive step together,” pleaded the deputy, especially returned to the Assembly to defend her text, after giving birth at the end of October .
“I’m going to find my daughter right away,” he launched when addressing those “who would wonder about his presence.”
His initiative was announced in June, in the wake of a sweeping decision by the highest court in the United States, which had weakened American women’s right to abortion.
Advocates of including the right to abortion in the Constitution, both in the presidential majority and on the left, point out that this achievement is also weakened in European countries, citing Poland in particular.
“A right absolutely not threatened in France” for an RN deputy
Left-wing deputies advocated, without success, that the right to contraception also be included in the Constitution, as proposed by the text presented by LFI.
Elected officials of the LR and RN, for their part, expressed reluctance regarding the text adopted on Wednesday.
“The right to abortion is not absolutely threatened in France,” argued RN deputy Pascale Bordes, criticizing a formulation that “suggests that access would be unconditional and absolute.”
The Senate said no.
The deputy LR Virginie Duby-Muller requested that the constitutionalization of the right to abortion be accompanied by that of “respect for all human beings from the beginning of life for the sake of balance”, an amendment rejected.
LR also considered that the deputies’ text “cannot prosper”, after the Senate rejected a similar bill on October 19 at first reading.
However, any proposed constitutional law must be voted on in the same terms by the two assemblies, before being submitted to a referendum.
Source: BFM TV
