LOOK. With a clear majority, France is the first country in the world to include the right to abortion in its constitution
The French Constitution will be added an article stating that the law “determines the conditions under which the freedom guaranteed to a woman to voluntarily terminate her pregnancy is exercised”.
With this revision of the Constitution, France will be a pioneer, as a “beacon of humanity” and “homeland of human rights and especially of women’s rights”, according to French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal. According to him, this will now avoid the right on abortion is “at the whims” of politicians.
Abortion has been legal in France since the mid-1970s.
President Macron responded enthusiastically on Monday evening: “French pride, a universal message,” he says. He wants the sealing ceremony to be open to the public. It is no coincidence that this is happening this Friday, on International Women’s Day. “Let us celebrate together the inclusion of a new guaranteed freedom in the Constitution with the first sealing ceremony in our history open to the public,” the president said on X, formerly Twitter.