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FRANCE BECOMES FIRST COUNTRY TO INCLUDE ABORTION RIGHTS IN ITS CONSTITUTION

France has become the first country in the world to explicitly include a
powerful woman’s right in its constitution after officials voted.

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A powerful image has showed the relief women experienced after discovering their
right to abortion is now guaranteed in one European country.

France has become the first country in the world to explicitly include the right
to abortion in its constitution.

Parliamentarians voted to revise the country’s 1958 constitution to enshrine
women’s “guaranteed freedom” to abort.

A congress of both Houses of Parliament gathered in a special chamber at the
Palace of Versailles saw 780 politicians in favour and 72 voting against.

Women hugged and cried as the news broke that their right to have an abortion
could not be taken away.

In one particularly poignant snap, a woman could be seen sobbing in response to
the country’s move to guarantee abortion rights in it’s constitution. Others
shouted out in relief.

The Eiffel Tower was even lit up in celebration after the change was passed with
slogans including “My Body My Choice” flashing on the edifice.


A woman sheds tears as France becomes the only country in the world to clearly
protect the right to terminate a pregnancy in its basic law. Picture: Dimitar
Dilkoff/ AFP)

A message reading "My body my choice" is projected onto the Eiffel Tower after
the French parliament voted. Picture: Dimitar DILKOFF / AFP

Abortion advocates flooded the streets to ring in the landmark legislation,
marching through the streets with signs and flares.

President Emmanuel Macron described the move as “French pride” that had sent a
“universal message”, and a special public ceremony is planned to celebrate the
move in Paris on International Women’s Day on March 8.



“This is a fundamental step … A step that will go down in history,” Prime
Minister Gabriel Attal told the politicians as he urged them to pass the
legislation.

He said they owed “a moral debt” toward all women who had suffered before the
legalisation of abortion.

But Attal said the right to abort remained “in danger” worldwide, with our
“freedoms in essence threatened … at the mercy of decision makers”.

“In one generation, one year, one week, you can go from one thing to the
opposite,” he said, referring to rights reversals in the United States, Hungary
and Poland.

Such joint parliamentary sessions are rare in France and called only for
momentous occasions such as constitutional changes, the last of which was made
in 2008.


Abortion advocates flooded the streets in celebration as the landmark
legislation passed.

Macron pledged last year to enshrine abortion — legal in France since 1975 — in
the constitution after the US Supreme Court in 2022 overturned the
half-century-old right to the procedure, allowing individual American states to
ban or curtail it.

The vote “is of huge significance given the rollback of this essential right
around the world,” said Amnesty International’s secretary-general Agnes
Callamard, adding that it had sent a message of “hope and solidarity”.

World Health Organisation chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, in a post on X,
welcomed “France’s decision to secure women’s rights and save their lives”.

In January, France’s lower house of parliament, the National Assembly,
overwhelmingly approved the move with the upper house, the Senate, following
suit on Wednesday.

A majority of the French public support the move to give the right to abortion
extra protection, according to polls.


People gather near the Eiffel Tower during the broadcasting of the convocation
of both Houses of Parliament to anchor the right of abortion in the country's
constitution. Picture: Karim Ait Adjedjou/ABACAPRESS.COM/AAP

A November 2022 survey by French polling group IFOP found that 86 per cent of
French people supported inscribing it in the constitution.

France’s openness also draws attention to the disintegration of bodily autonomy
in the United States where Roe V Wade, which allowed for abortions, was
repealed.

The move has led to prison sentences in some states for women who have sought
abortions.

For instance, 18-year-old Celeste Burgess, from Nebraska, was sentenced to 90
days in prison and two years of probation for burning and burying a foetus.

The abortion violated the Nebraska law that banned abortion after 20 weeks.

Laura Slimani, from the Fondation des Femmes rights group, has been left over
the moon at France’s move to guarantee the right to an abortion.

“This right (to abortion) has retreated in the United States. And so nothing
authorised us to think that France was exempt from this risk,” she said,
according to the BBC.

“There’s a lot of emotion, as a feminist activist, also as a woman.”


Protesters hold a slogan which reads "My body, My uterus, My choice" during a
silence gathering in front of the French Senate organised by 'Abortion in
Europe' movement. Picture: Kiran RIDLEY / AFP)

Backlash over France’s abortion call

Left-wing and centrist politicians within France have welcomed the change, while
some right-wing senators have said in private they felt under pressure to give
it a green light.

Several hundred abortion opponents, largely marginalised in the move for the
constitutional change, protested in Versailles.

Catholic bishops meanwhile called for a day of “fasting and prayer” so the
French could “rediscover the taste for life”.

The French Bishops’ Conference (CEF) argued that abortion, “which remains an
attack on life” cannot be seen “exclusively from the perspective of women’s
rights”.

Weighing in from Rome, the Vatican said there could be “no ‘right’ to take a
human life”.

“All governments and religious traditions must do their best so that at this
stage in history, the protection of life becomes an absolute priority, with
concrete steps in favour of peace and social justice and with effective measures
for a universal access to resources, education and healthcare.”


France has become the only country in the world to clearly protect the right to
terminate a pregnancy in its basic law.

But hundreds of jubilant backers of the move leapt for joy at the Place du
Trocadero in western Paris as they witnessed the passing of the law on a large
screen set up for the occasion.

“I’m happy because our rights are constantly under threat everywhere … and it’s
only getting worse,” said Cecile Carimalo, 46, who watched with her 12-year-old
daughter at the Trocadero esplanade.

“This they won’t be able to take from us.” “If men got pregnant, it would have
been inscribed in the text in 1792” during the French Revolution, she added.

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‘No words’: State’s huge abortion move

Abortion was legalised in France in 1975 in a law championed by then-health
minister Simone Veil, a women’s rights icon granted the rare honour of burial at
the Pantheon after her death in 2018.

When political campaigning began in earnest in 1971, “we could never have
imagined that the right to abortion would one day be written into the
constitution”, Claudine Monteil, head of the Femmes Monde (Women in the World)
association, told AFP.

At the time, an estimated 700,000 to 800,000 women aborted each year. Leah
Hoctor, of the Center for Reproductive Rights, said France could offer “the
first explicit broad constitutional provision of its kind, not just in Europe,
but also globally”.

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