The battle is relaunched on abortion.
After a chaotic parliamentary journey, the bill on the extension from 12 to 14 weeks of the legal deadline for abortion is back on Monday in the National Assembly.
Despite the reluctance of the Head of State, who has repeatedly recalled that he was not in favor of this reform.
“Additional delays are not neutral on a woman's trauma.
Afterwards, I respect the freedom of parliamentarians, ”
he confided in particular to
Le Figaro
during his visit to Rome to meet Pope Francis at the end of last week.
But the pressure from majority parliamentarians, with the support of elected socialists and La France insoumise, to have this text placed in a parliamentary niche ended up paying off.
In October, Christophe Castaner announced his return to second reading in the Hemicycle, judging that if abortion was
"not threatened in law"
, it was
"in practice"
.
“There are real territorial and social inequalities.
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