A great first since the beginning of the new term. Renaissance and Nupes voted in favor of the constitutionalization of abortion this Thursday morning with a result of 337 vote for. 32 deputies voted against.
“The law guarantees the effectiveness and equal access to the right and to the voluntary interruption of pregnancy”, defends this text from La France insoumise.
Convergence on a Modern Amendment
The measure already taken by the movement of Jean-Luc Mélenchon in 2018 was rejected at the time by the majority. But the situation changed last June after the decision of the US Supreme Court to revoke right to abortion.
In the process, Aurore Bergé, the patron saint of the deputies of the Renaissance majority had announced the presentation of a bill to “inscribe respect for abortion in our Constitution”. But the rebels also wanted to play their card and used their parliamentary niche on Thursday to defend their own bill.
The initial version defended by LFI defended “equal access to contraception”, but it was modified this Thursday, after the approval of a Modem amendment. The macronie version was supposed to be reviewed next Monday, but ultimately it will not be reviewed.
Unprecedented support for LFI
If the presidential majority had initially hesitated to vote for the text of the rebels, the decision was finally made to support this text.
“The French would not understand that we reject a proposal that we defend, alleging that it is led by an opposition group,” Sylvain Maillard, the interim president of the Renaissance deputies, had justified in the columns of the figaro.
What to see there a turning point. Until now, “the republican arc” defined by Elisabeth Borne excluded La France insoumise. Last October, Emmanuel Macron came to judge that the rebels were “on the side of disorder and cynicism”.
RN will also file its version to defend the conscience clause
The National Rally was embarrassed by the proposal of Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s movement.
“No political formation in France calls for the abolition of this right”, explained Marine Le Pen in the JDD columns at the beginning of November, encouraging her deputies to vote against this text or to abstain.
The deputy RN Pascale Bordes also pointed her finger this Thursday in the chamber at a text that could “dedicate unconditional access to abortion.”
The RN voted for
Concerned about not appearing to retract this social issue, the former presidential candidate also wants to finally present a constitutional bill to defend abortion that would confirm the conscience clause that doctors who do not want to perform this intervention benefit from. In 2010
But, after the notion of “equal access to contraception” was withdrawn, the RN agreed to vote on the rebels’ proposal.
For their part, the LR judged that the provisions in force were sufficient to guarantee access to abortion in France.
Little chance of the text being translated into law
Despite its approval by the National Assembly, the insubordinates bill has very little chance of being incorporated into the Constitution. Now you must go through the caudine forks of the Senate.
The Luxembourg Palace has already said no to a very similar text defended by environmental senator Mélanie Vogel last October. Should the upper house change its mind, then it would have to be presented to the French in a referendum.
“All this has, in my opinion, almost no chance of success in view of my discussions with the senators,” explained the Keeper of the Seals Éric Dupond-Moretti bluntly this Wednesday before the deputies.
Source: BFM TV
