Macron versucht, Abtreibung in die französische Verfassung aufzunehmen und reagiert damit auf die USA
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Macron versucht, Abtreibung in die französische Verfassung aufzunehmen und reagiert damit auf die USA
by washingtonpost
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**From Karla Adam:**
President Emmanuel Macron on Friday submitted language for an amendment that would make France the first country to enshrine a right to abortion in its constitution.
Macron has declared on social media that by next year “the right of women to choose abortion will become irreversible.”
The push comes in direct response to the restriction of abortion rights in the United States.
Abortion in France has not been similarly under threat. The French public is overwhelmingly pro-choice. Abortion is legal for any reason through the 14th week of pregnancy and fully covered by the country’s health insurance system.
But after the U.S. Supreme Court Dobbs ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade last year and allowed states to outlaw abortion, French women clamored to further protect their right.
“The Dobbs case was very shocking in France,” said Mathilde Philip-Gay, a law professor at Jean Moulin Lyon 3 University. “A movement was born just after the case, and women asked Parliament to act and especially to change the constitution.” She noted that polls in the summer of 2022 showed that about 80 percent of the population was pro-abortion and a similar percentage was in favor of adding the right to an abortion to the constitution.
“We don’t have the same problem as the U.S. It’s not for now. It’s for the future,” Philip-Gay said. “If you listen to Donald Trump campaign in 2018, you can tell that there was a strategy to reverse federal abortion rights. In the U.S., there was a long-term strategy; in France, we need a long-term strategy, too.”
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How difficult is it to amend France’s constitution?
Almost makes you forget all the dic(taters) he’s entertaining
good policies coming out of France lately
If they do that, the US will have to pass laws making it illegal to use ports and airports to go to France for an abortion!
On a day when we need some heartening news!
How great do you think are the chances of this happening? I doubt this is an action that has a guaranteed realization.
Once more yet another rational move. We can’t seem to agree that a rational decision is a good one!