Right to abortion: the National Assembly votes in favor of its inclusion in the Constitution

The National Assembly voted in favor of the inclusion of the right to voluntary termination of pregnancy (IVG) in the Constitution, this Thursday.

A proposal supported by the deputies of the Nupes and the majority.

The deputies adopted by 337 votes against 32 a compromise text, in the hope of obtaining the approval of the Senate, essential for a constitutional reform.

As a reminder, this proposal was debated in the Assembly after a first rejection by the Senate, with a majority on the right, in October.

The senators had voted against the text, by 139 votes for and 172 votes against, after sometimes lively exchanges which had turned into a right-left confrontation.

"The senatorial majority has chosen to register against the will of 81% of French men and women," reacted at the time the author of the bill, the ecologist Mélanie Vogel.

Inscribing the right to abortion in the Constitution "would have the force of the symbol", had for his part declared the Keeper of the Seals, Éric Dupond-Moretti.