It is no coincidence that the Elysée called to be
"very attentive"
to the words spoken by Emmanuel Macron in his tribute to lawyer Gisèle Halimi.
Each of them has a decisive meaning on the heated subject of the inclusion of abortion in the Constitution.
However, if the president spoke out on Wednesday in favor of this registration, he did not speak of
"right"
but of
"freedom"
.
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The Head of State thus seems to prefer the rewriting of this proposal by the senators to the version voted by the deputies in the National Assembly.
The former opted for the following wording:
"The law determines the conditions under which a woman's freedom to terminate her pregnancy is exercised."
The latter had chosen to go further by devoting
"effectiveness and equal access to the law"
to abortion.
Basically, what's the difference?
"Engraving a right to abortion in the Constitution could come into conflict with other rights and freedoms, including constitutional value such as freedom...
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