It is a day of glory for France and for women.
This Monday, March 4, Congress voted to include in the Constitution the right to abortion (voluntary termination of pregnancy).
A historic decision which comes almost forty-nine years after the first law on abortion adopted by Simone Veil, icon of the fight for women's rights.
But while the country has been beating for several days with the applause of this new civic momentum, several members of the La France Insoumise movement wanted to emphasize a point.
Indeed, the far-left political party founded by Jean-Luc Mélenchon denounced the “invisibility” of the hard work of its leader and deputy, Mathilde Panot, who is nevertheless among the personalities at the initiative of this decision .
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So as not to forget, a montage was published on
Indeed, it is to Mathilde Panot that we owe the first revision filing at the origin of this inscription in the Constitution.
This proposed a constitutional law - that is, in the French Constitution - in parallel with the ban on abortion in several American states (the Roe vs Wade ruling).
While in 1975, the text proposed by the first female politician was transformed into the “Veil law”, the members of LFI called for the same by naming this new stage the “Panot law”.
Gabriel Attal in the sights of LFI
Still on X, Jean-Luc Mélenchon also protested against the speech of Prime Minister Gabriel Attal, a few minutes before the vote in Congress.
“I want to thank here all the parliamentarians, from the majority as well as from the opposition, who participated in this work,” said Emmanuel Macron's right-hand man, mentioning Simone Veil, the socialist ministers Martine Aubry and Yvette Roudy, but omitting the name of the LFI deputy.
“Attal, pathetic little thing, makes the role of the rebels and President Mathilde Panot invisible in today’s decision,” wrote Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
Sexism and sectarianism typical of a man without substance who has never led any long-term fight.”
“The man that I am has made the two women who tabled the legislative proposals that we are voting on today invisible: Mathilde Panot and Mélanie Vogel (a
senator who also initiated the inclusion of the right to abortion in the Constitution, Editor’s note
),” added Sandrine Rousseau.
The ecologist here refers to a sentence pronounced by Gabriel Attal during his speech: “The man that I am cannot know the distress of these women, the physical suffering, but the brother, the son, the friend, the Prime Minister will remember the pride of having been at this platform.
Without much surprise, the montage assimilating Panot and Veil quickly caused an outcry on the web, with several political figures denouncing such a rapprochement.
“What an indignity,” retorted Aurélien Veil, grandson of the former President of the European Parliament and Minister of Health.
“Mathilde Panot and her minions are definitely not ashamed of anything.
This face-to-face between the great lady who fought anti-Semitism all her life and the vulgar extremist who spends his time stirring up hatred of Jews within our Nation is infamous,” said Caroline Yadan. , Renaissance MP.
A distressing standoff between each party that some Internet users regretted as this historic vote was intended to unite, more than to divide.
A “diplomatic” fight
In response to the revolt, Mathilde Panot, however, shared a second illustration, clashing with the first.
“In your opinion, the most scandalous thing is: A. Making a visual to honor Simone Veil when we include the right to abortion in the Constitution.
B. Having passed the first vote in the Assembly on constitutionalization on November 24, 2022. C. Having an extreme right which continues to be the worst enemy of women's rights.
D. The answer D?”, she wrote on her social networks.
The MP nonetheless savored her victory and continued her fight, immediately announcing the tabling of a resolution calling on the government to mobilize “diplomatically with the Member States of the Union and the European Commission”.
In question ?
May the right to abortion be protected not in France but throughout Europe.
A big step for women and for humanity.