France on-track to constitutionalize abortion rights:
The French National Assembly passed a historic bill on Tuesday moving the country one step closer to ...
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Enshrining Abortion Rights in France's Constitution493 lawmakers backed the bill; Senate vote is set for February and Congress adoption aimed by March 8, 2024.
- The National Assembly approved the constitutional bill on Tuesday with 493 votes in favor and 30 against.
- The measure now goes to the Senate for debate and a February vote before a joint parliamentary Congress must approve it by a three-fifths majority.
- The push for constitutionalization intensified after the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022 and aims to guard against international rollbacks on reproductive rights.
- If adopted, France would be the first country to enshrine abortion rights in its constitution, a development praised by government ministers even as campaigners warn of persistent access problems in rural areas.
History is full of examples of… fundamental rights… which everyone… believed to have been definitively acquired, and which were then swept away… as we were recently reminded by the decision of the US Supreme Court. We now have irrefutable proof that no democracy, not even the largest of them all, is immune.— Justice Minister Éric Dupont-Moretti said in his opening speech.
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