With 276 votes for and 50 votes against, the Senate voted favorably to include the right to abortion in the French Constitution. “We are writing History,” greeted Mathilde Panot, LFI senator, to AFP.
Abortion rights activists were hanging on to this decision, a delicate but essential step before Parliament meets in Congress. The latter will also meet in Versailles, Monday March 4, to officially includeabortion in the Constitution. This is what Emmanuel Macron announced in a publication on X, in the minutes following the vote.