The leader of LREM deputies Aurore Bergé announced on Saturday the tabling of a bill to include "
respect for abortion in our Constitution
", after the historic decision of the Supreme Court of the United States to revoke this right. .
Beyond the United States, this decision is "
catastrophic for women around the world: you have a woman who dies every 9 minutes because an abortion was performed improperly, in an unsafe way
", underlined on
France Inter
the new president of the majority group in the Assembly.
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“
This also calls for us to take measures in France so that we cannot have any reversals tomorrow that could exist.
This is the reason why, as of today, with my group, we are going to table a constitutional bill to include respect for abortion in our Constitution
, ”added the elected representative from Yvelines, a former LR at feminist commitment.
She had notably strongly defended the extension in France of the legal deadline for abortion, voted at the end of the previous legislature.
Does she fear a challenge in France?
"
Unfortunately, nothing is impossible and women's rights are still rights that are fragile and that are regularly called into question
," replied Aurore Bergé.
RN elected officials, "fierce opponents" to abortion
Pointing to the new RN deputies, "
fierce opponents of women's access to abortion
", she judged that it was not necessary to "
take any risk in this area and therefore secure
" this right.
The FN, which became RN, was for a long time radically anti-abortion.
In 2011, Marine Le Pen reiterated her wish to de-reimburse abortion, then advocated the status quo on the subject, presenting herself as the first defender of women's rights.
His bill, sent to AFP, stipulates that "
no one can be deprived of the right to voluntary termination of pregnancy
".
The boss of the LREM deputies insisted: "
We do not change the Constitution as we change the law
" so "
it is a guarantee that we must give to women
".
She believes that the measure will be “
widely shared on the benches of the National Assembly and the Senate
”.
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Friday evening, the leader of the Insoumis deputies Mathilde Panot had also announced that she would propose on Monday to the left alliance Nupes "
to file a bill to include the right to abortion in the
French Constitution".