It's done.
Senators voted this Wednesday afternoon for the inclusion of abortion in the Constitution.
The vote had been made very uncertain by the reluctance of the right.
Ultimately, 267 senators voted for and 50 against.
The vote in the Senate was the most perilous stage of the constitutional revision promised by the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron: the executive absolutely needed the majority vote of the 348 parliamentarians at the Luxembourg Palace to achieve this.
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“The law determines the conditions under which the freedom guaranteed to women to have recourse to a voluntary termination of pregnancy is exercised”: the wording chosen by the government had already largely convinced the National Assembly, almost unanimously.
The wording retained by the government is very close to a version adopted in the Senate in February 2023 with the support of around thirty LR-centrist voices.
To be definitively adopted, the reform had to be validated word for word in the Senate, then by three-fifths of Parliament meeting at a Congress in Versailles.
This inclusion of abortion comes against a backdrop of concern over the challenges to this right in the United States and in certain European countries.
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