The subject has been animating the quiet corridors of the Luxembourg Palace for several weeks.
This Wednesday afternoon, senators will have to decide.
Should the right to voluntary termination of pregnancy (abortion) be included in the Constitution?
And should it be done in the exact terms proposed by the government?
If this were the case, a Congress would then be convened in Versailles very soon and parliamentarians will once again have to decide on the text, which must be adopted by three-fifths of the members to be included in the fundamental text.
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But the matter is not yet won for the executive.
In their bill, the Minister of Justice, Éric Dupond-Moretti, and that of Equality between women and men, Aurore Bergé, want to constitutionalize the fact that
“the law determines the conditions in which the exercise of freedom guaranteed to women to have recourse to an abortion
.
A formulation that upsets the senatorial majority, made up of Republicans…
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