In recent days, the air has been softer.
With the vote of Congress which brought abortion into the Constitution, the scent of freedom has spread throughout our country.
Smiles are on our faces, congratulations and well done fill our social networks.
We must not sulk about this victory, we must savor it, we must proclaim it.
And continue to fight!
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Savor it first, because it truly is a victory.
Those of the feminists who have been mobilized for years, and particularly from Planned Parenthood.
But also that of women parliamentarians, who were able to work together, from all sides, to impose this subject, and ultimately, trigger this congress.
So on Monday, we had a party to celebrate this world premiere with giant screens, in Paris, at the Trocadéro, and today, March 8, we continue the celebration of our struggles.
Let's savor this victory too, to recharge our batteries.
We are so often overwhelmed by anxieties about the future, and by the darkness of misogyny.
We need it all the more as there are so many projects facing us.
It is not only inequalities that persist but also those that are reinforced.
During economic and social crises, it is the most precarious, and therefore largely women, who suffer.
Already, the first budgetary savings decided by the government in view of the gloomy economic situation of 2024 are reducing the budget of the Ministry of Women's Rights, although it is the smallest in the State...
“As long as we progress, we will not go backwards”
We must then proclaim this victory because our sisters in the struggle need it.
Since last Monday, it has been a small part of French pride and a big echo for women around the world.
For those who fight for abortion all over the world.
For the mothers and wives of soldiers who in Russia denounce the war in Ukraine.
For Narges Mohammadi, the walls of Iranian prisons cannot achieve silence.
For Justine Massika Bihamba who denounces war rape in the DRC… and all the others.
Proclaim it too, so that our adversaries do not return to the charge any time soon.
Let's remember what it felt like when the United States reversed federal protection of the right to abortion.
Astonishment, depression… If we win, they lose.
As long as we are progressing, we are not going backwards.
Contrary to the stunted vision of conservatives, equality between women and men carries with it a desire to move society forward, to extend the scope of our democracies, to save the planet and even to make our country prosper. economy.
“When women emancipate themselves, the world changes”
This March 8, UN Women is launching a campaign “Investing in women: accelerating the pace” to highlight the crucial importance of gender equality in the current context of multiple crises, including climate, which are straining test our societies.
And at the same time that Congress approved the constitutionalization of abortion, in New York the World Bank published an enlightening report which said that if equality between men and women were achieved, world growth would double.
No, definitely, this March 8 is not like all the others.
In a few hours, Emmanuel Macron will seal new words in our Constitution.
The entry of abortion into the Constitution reminds us that politics is about ideas that change the world.
She also tells us that women's fight for their freedom, here as elsewhere, is not a particularism: it brings with it a vision of the world capable of uniting an entire society.
When women emancipate themselves, the world changes.