While she was about to deliver, on November 26, 1974, the moving speech presenting her bill for the liberalization of abortion before an Assembly which then only had 12 women out of 490 deputies, Simone Veil already knew: she was not going to not just having to fight or convince men from the right, the extreme right and sometimes the left, insensitive to the tragedy of the 300,000 women then forced each year to have clandestine abortions, because they "
felt cornered in a situation with no other way out than the suicide, the ruin of their family balance or the misfortune of their children
.
She would not only have against her the intransigent defenders of Catholic, Jewish or Muslim laws.
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Although she had long supported the feminist struggles of lawyer Gisèle Halimi, notably during the trial of the young Marie-Claire Chevalier, raped at the age of 16 and brought before the Bobigny court in 1972 for having had an abortion, the Minister of Health...
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