French lawmakers want abortion rights in constitution

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  1. >The move comes after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a 50-year-old ruling…

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    >“What happened elsewhere must not happen in France,” Rixain said.

    They could have easily done it earlier, besides Europe is not the US, it’s a completely different political situation when it comes to abortions (except for Poland or Malta).

  2. >Macron said women’s liberties are being undermined by the decision. “Abortion is a fundamental right for all women. It must be protected,” the French president wrote in a Twitter post late Friday.

    Also Macron:

    >Macron had expressed his opposition to extending the abortion time limit to 14 weeks in an interview with Elle magazine last summer, saying it was “more traumatising” for women to terminate pregnancies at a later point. He then told journalists that “extended time limits are not neutral in terms of a woman’s trauma”.

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