If the National Assembly has solemnly voted to include abortion in the Constitution, the text could meet another fate in the Senate.
The right, in the majority at the Luxembourg Palace, hardly hides its hostility towards a text that it considers unnecessary.
“Abortion is not threatened in our country,”
recently declared the President of the Upper House, Gérard Larcher.
“I think the Constitution is not a catalog of social and societal rights.”
More profoundly, it is argued in the Senate, it is the formula of
“guaranteed freedom”
of the woman to have recourse to abortion which is offensive.
“Guaranteeing this right is calling into question the conscience clause of caregivers.”
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, the leader of the LR senators, Bruno Retailleau, argues that,
"as it stands, there cannot be a vote in line with the government's version from the LR senators."
Recalling, moreover, that Simone Veil herself was opposed to the constitutionalization of abortion.
“‘Guaranteed freedom’ is a right.
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