While she was about to deliver, on November 26, 1974, the shocking speech presenting her bill for the liberalization of abortion before an Assembly which then had only 12 women out of 490 deputies, Simone Veil already knew: she was not going not only having to fight or convince men of the right, of the extreme right and sometimes of the left, insensitive to the tragedy of the 300,000 women forced then each year to clandestine abortions, because they
“felt forced into a situation with no other way out than suicide, the ruin of their family balance or the misfortune of their children ”
.
It would not only have against it the intransigent defenders of Catholic, Jewish or Muslim laws.
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Although she had long supported the feminist struggles of the lawyer Gisèle Halimi, in particular during the trial of the young Marie-Claire Chevalier, raped at the age of 16 and brought to court in Bobigny in 1972 for having an abortion, the Minister of Health
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