Macron, 'we want abortion in the EU charter of rights' - Last minute. French president, Emmanuel Macron, today confirmed his desire to include the "freedom to resort" to abortion "in the charter of fundamental rights of the European Union" "We will wage this battle on our continent - he said in a public ceremony in Place Vendome - where reactionary forces first and always attack women's rights before turning against the rights of minorities, of all the oppressed and of all freedoms"