A column in the JDD signed by 343 "
women and people who can live a pregnancy
", feminist activists, musicians, actresses or politicians including Vanessa Paradis, Béatrice Dalle or Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, calls for an extension of the time limits for resorting to abortion in France, beyond 12 weeks.
To read also: Emmanuel Sapin: "Extending the period of abortion from 12 to 14 weeks raises serious ethical questions"
This text was published on the eve of April 5, the fiftieth anniversary of the “
Manifesto of 343
”, famous or anonymous women claiming to have illegally aborted, which marked the history of the right to abortion in France.
Fifty years later, “
we have not yet acquired full ownership of our bodies.
Patriarchy slows down our choices,
”write the signatories.
Among them, 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 ...)
“
In relation to abortion, the law has set the limit: twelve weeks of pregnancy.
Beyond that, recourse is limited and conditioned
", on the one hand to"
doctors who then rule on the + medical necessity + to terminate a pregnancy
", and on the other hand"
to our socio-economic situation
", write- they.
"
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
."
“
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.
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.
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