The overall vote was postponed until next Tuesday, as if to give it more solemnity, but the result is beyond doubt: the National Assembly will adopt the project aimed at engraving in stone the Constitution that "the law
determines the conditions in which exercise the freedom guaranteed to the woman to have recourse to a voluntary termination of pregnancy
.
But abortion will only be included in the Basic Law on the condition that before the meeting of a congress, on March 5, a text is adopted in conforming terms by the Assembly and the Senate.
Recalling that in his eyes, the Constitution was not
"a catalog of social and societal rights"
, Gérard Larcher was accused of wanting to foil the adoption of what the Insoumis call "the Panot law" since it is the president of the LFI group which is at the origin of this legislative initiative.
The criticisms addressed to the President of the Senate underline the difficulty in accepting pluralism of opinions.
As if any reservation...
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