The Socialist group, represented by Patrick Kanner, "
welcomes
" Tuesday the return of the law on the extension of the duration of abortion in the Senate in January. The SER group leader hopes that the Parliament will adopt this text “
progressive
” and “
always supported
” by these elected officials, he declared on Public Senate. Each year, "
2000 women in France are obliged to go
" abroad to perform an abortion, specifies Patrick Kanner. The shuttle between the two parliamentary chambers of the text aimed at extending from 12 to 14 weeks the period granted to women to have an abortion was not won in advance, while no senatorial group had been able or wanted to take it up and that Emmanuel Macron expressed his reservations about such an extension.
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AFP learned Monday evening from government and parliamentary sources that the government had finally decided to put the bill on the Senate's agenda in January, a measure that can be seen by some as a "
political coup in leadership of the left-wing electorate
, ”said Patrick Kanner.
If Emmanuel Macron is "
opposed
" to this text, according to Patrick Kanner, the late declaration of the government on Monday to place it on the agenda in the Senate could also be a "
political coup
" to the right "
in view of the evolution of Valérie Pécresse
”, candidate LR in the presidential election, in the polls, still judged the boss of the senators PS.
