The French Senate approvedThe majority supported the inclusion in the Constitution of the “freedom guaranteed to women to resort to abortion.”a historic step for the country, which is the first country to protect abortion at the constitutional level.
The proposal, approved in the National Assembly at the end of January, received the support of 267 senators and another fifty opposed it. Justice Minister Eric Dupond-Moretti celebrated the “historic” vote, which opens “a new page in women’s rights.”
Approval of this measure has been a mystery in recent weeks due to the reluctance of some of the key leaders of the Republicans, heirs to the classic French right. In fact, Senate President Gérard Larcher went so far as to argue that the Constitution is “not a catalog of social rights.”
In fact, the leader ofe Republicans in the Senate came to present several amendments to change the text approved by the House. Finally, a few days earlier, according to BFM TV, some conservative and centrist MPs changed their positions.
French President Emmanuel Macron has already celebrated the news has stated that it is “committed to making women’s abortion freedom irreversible by enshrining it in the Constitution.” The French President will convene Parliament for a final vote on March 4th.
France’s National Assembly overwhelmingly approved the constitution containing guarantees for the free practice of abortion, although the text still had to get into the hands of a Senate with a conservative majority that was feared could repeal the measure.