Contraception: the well-forgotten testament of Simone Veil. On the occasion of World Contraception Day, this September 26, journalist Christine Clerc recalls that contraception was a priority for Simone Veil, when she adopted the law authorizing abortion at the end of 1974.
Although she had long supported the feminist struggles of lawyer Gisèle Halimi, notably during the trial of the young Marie-Claire Chevalier, raped at the age of 16 and brought before the Bobigny court in 1972.