The date chosen is obviously not by chance.
A column published this Sunday in the JDD and signed by 343 "women and people who could be pregnant", feminist activists, musicians, actresses or politicians including Vanessa Paradis, Béatrice Dalle or Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, calls for an extension of the appeal periods to abortion in France, beyond 12 weeks.
This text was published on the eve of April 5, the fiftieth anniversary of the “Manifesto of 343”.
These famous or anonymous women claiming to have aborted illegally, marking the history of the right to abortion in France and to whom the mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo paid tribute on Saturday.
Fifty years later, “we have not yet acquired full ownership of our bodies.
The patriarchy slows down our choices, ”write the signatories of the forum.
Homage and recognition to these 343 women who, 50 years ago, had the courage to speak out to claim the right for all to dispose of their bodies.
Even today, guaranteeing access to abortion is a battle that we must wage relentlessly.
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- Anne Hidalgo (@Anne_Hidalgo) April 3, 2021
Among them are actresses including Julie Gayet, Corinne Masiero, Laure Calamy, Marina Foïs, Zabou Breitman, Anna Mouglalis, Alexandra Lamy, singers (Juliette Armanet, Yaël Naïm, Barbara Carlotti), directors (Catherine Corsini, Andréa Bescond) but also journalists (Léa Drucker, Maïa Mazaurette), political leaders or activists (Marie-Noëlle Lienemann, Clémentine Autain, Audrey Pulvar, Assa Traoré, Alice Coffin, Caroline De Haas ...)
"Violence inflicted in silence and indifference"
“In relation to abortion, the law has set the limit: twelve weeks of pregnancy.
Beyond that, the remedies are limited and conditioned ", on the one hand to" doctors who then decide on the
medical necessity
to terminate a pregnancy ", and on the other hand" to our socio-economic situation ", they write. .
"Affected people endowed with resources will be able to travel abroad, to countries whose more progressive laws will allow them to have an abortion in safe conditions."
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“Finally, deprived of their right to dispose of their bodies, there are these women forced to continue an unwanted pregnancy.
This violence is inflicted in silence and indifference, ”denounces the text.
“In solidarity with all these women, I declare that I am one of them.
I declare to have aborted.
In France.
Abroad.
Beyond the French legal deadline.
I could be one of them.
I am united.
I demand real control over my body, I demand respect for my body, my rights and my choices, I demand an extension of the legal time limits for access to abortion, ”he concludes.
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Last February, the withdrawal of a bill to extend the period of access to abortion from 12 to 14 weeks of pregnancy caused a stir in the National Assembly.
The Socialist group had to give up because of the many amendments tabled by the right, accused of obstruction.