2023-11-17 21:16:46
The bill including voluntary termination of pregnancy (abortion) in the Constitution will be presented on December 13 to the Council of Ministers, before a possible meeting of Parliament in Congress in March to ratify its adoption, several invited party leaders reported on Friday. by Emmanuel Macron.
This text should be examined in Parliament in the first quarter of 2024. It will then be necessary for 3/5th of the deputies and senators, gathered during the Congress, to endorse the formulation, which aims to make abortion an “irreversible” right, according to the promise by Emmanuel Macron. The last Congress with a view to constitutional revision took place in 2008 for the modernization of institutions.
Protection of this right
On March 8, International Women’s Rights Day, the President of the Republic made a commitment to include the freedom to resort to abortion in the Constitution, responding to concerns arising from the cancellation a year ago. and a half of the ruling guaranteeing the United States the right to abortion throughout the country. The inclusion of abortion in the Constitution, a right currently recognized in an ordinary law, would complicate any attempt by the legislator to suppress this right or seriously undermine it.
Demanded by the left and feminist associations, the question of including this right was raised in March by Emmanuel Macron, who spoke of a revision of the Constitution. LFI MP Mathilde Panot had a proposed constitutional law adopted last November at first reading in the Assembly, guaranteeing the “right to voluntary termination of pregnancy”. The Senate in turn adopted it in February, but included the “freedom of women” to resort to voluntary termination of pregnancy (abortion), rather than their “right”.
The number of abortions is at its highest level since 1990. In 2022, 234,300 voluntary terminations of pregnancy (IVGs) were performed in France, or 17,000 more than in 2021, according to a study of the Directorate of Research, Studies, Evaluation and Statistics (Drees) published at the end of September.
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