It is a reaction to the violent decision of the American Supreme Court to remove one of the fundamental social rights of the country.
For fear that the right to abortion will also be jeopardized in France, more than 400 lawyers have signed a column published this Sunday in the JDD.
Supported by Karen Noblinski, Julie Couturier, Vincent Nioré, Rachel-Flore Pardo, the text calls for the inclusion of the right to abortion in the French Constitution to "protect women's rights".
A will already issued by LREM and the Nupes carry two bills to "engrave this achievement in stone" of the Constitution.
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"The decision of the American Supreme Court reminds us that the rights of women won over a long struggle are in danger", write its authors, denouncing "an unprecedented decline in freedoms".
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According to them, “the ban on abortion will never limit voluntary termination of pregnancy.
On the contrary, the prohibition and penalization of this right will lead to a dazzling number of clandestine abortions carried out in precarious, dangerous sanitary conditions unworthy of a democratic country.
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Masters Monique Antoine and Gisèle Halimi, the first secretary of the PSU Michel Rocard leave the Bobigny court on November 22, 1972, following the verdict in the case of the clandestine abortion of Marie-Claire, 17, pregnant at following a rape.
In France, the right to abortion is protected by the law of January 17, 1975, which we owe to Simone Veil.
“This law could one day be threatened”
“The recent legislative elections remind us that political balances are fragile, and that this law could one day be threatened,” they warn.
The signatories claim: "Nothing is more urgent than to strengthen this right by enshrining it in the Constitution!"
(…) This is why we, lawyers, call without further delay for the inclusion of the right to abortion in the French Constitution, to prevent anyone from hindering the right of women to dispose of their bodies.
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