On the uselessness and absurdity of including a "right to abortion" in the Constitution, serious jurists have already said everything, but the activists who now populate our chambers have the particularity of being locked in their certainties and to add to their legal lack of culture a particularly illiberal normative sectarianism.
The French Constitution, like its foreign counterparts, is obviously silent on the issue of abortion.
Putting an end to a human life is not written black on white in the social contract of a humanist nation.
Abortion is not a "value" to be brandished like a standard in a fundamental law.
It is therefore the constitutional judges who have returned, during the examination of the national legislative provisions which regulate it, to the thankless task of interpreting the general principles by reconciling on the one hand the freedom of women, on the other hand the dignity or the life of the embryo.
They each placed the cursor between these two requirements…
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