On a historic day in Congress, France became the first country to include “guaranteed freedom” to abortion in its Constitution. The first Minister Gabriel Attal welcomed this decision and considered that in this way An “era of hope” begins throughout the world.
For his part, the president Emmanuel Macron celebrated this parliamentary decision on his social networks: “French pride, universal message“said the president, who also announced that the constitutionalization ceremony will be on March 8, for International Women’s Day.
Although abortion was decriminalized almost 50 years ago in France and has a great social supportthe precedent of the United States, which in 2022 the Supreme Court decided to stop recognizing it as a federal right, encouraged the French leadership to guarantee this right in the Constitution.
After a long legislative process, after the approval in the National Assembly and in the Senate last weektoday finally the Congress, which brings together both houses of Parliamentapproved with a large majority the initiative that had initially been supported by the left-wing opposition and the ruling party. It received 780 votes in favor and 72 against.
France celebrated the inclusion of abortion in the Constitution although they warned of setbacks in the rest of the world
“I say to all women, within our borders and beyond, that the era of a world of hope begins“said the Prime Minister Gabriel Attal. Furthermore, he warned that Abortion “remains in danger” in the world, “at the mercy of those who decide.”
The American donald trumpthe Argentinian Javier Mileithe Brazilian Jair Bolsonaro and the hungarian Viktor Orban are some of the leaders or former leaders that the opposition cited as examples of that threat.
Before France, Chile had already tried to introduce the right for women to “a Voluntary termination of pregnancy“(IVE) in his new project Constitution in 2022which Chileans rejected in a referendum.
“The Chileans helped us achieve it here“opening the way,” said the leftist representative born in Chile, Raquel Garridofor whom the decision of France “is going to have repercussions throughout the world.”
France included the right to abortion in the Constitution: celebrations in Congress and in the streets
Once the result of the vote was known, associations and deputies, especially from the left, chanted “L’Hymne des Femmes” (The Women’s Anthem), in the Congress Hall
The leftist deputy Mathilde Panotdressed in green and with a scarf of the same color on her forearm “in homage to Argentine women”, He dedicated this “victory” to all those who “fight to decide about their body” in the world.
The inclusion of the right to abortion in the Constitution was also celebrated in the streets of Paris and, with the call of feminist associations, hundreds of people gathered at the Trocadero while in the Eiffel Tower, messages such as: “My body, my decision” were projected.
“If men could get pregnantI think it would have already happened in 1972“he assured AFP Cecile Carimalo46 years old, who, along with his 12-year-old daughter, celebrated that women’s rights are “a little more protected in France”.
Source: Ambito
