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A woman demonstrates with a poster reading ‘Abortion in the Constitution’ as part of the International Women's Day, March 8, 2023 in Paris
FRANCE’S National Assembly began yesterday to debate a Bill meant to enshrine a woman’s right to an abortion in the French Constitution, the first key step in a legislative process that also requires a vote in the Senate.
The measure has been promised by President Emmanuel Macron following a rollback of abortion rights in the United States.
Mr Macron’s government wants Article 34 of France’s constitution amended to include that “the law determines the conditions by which it exercises the freedom of women to have recourse to an abortion, which is guaranteed.”
As peers prepare to debate reform of the 1861 Offences Against the Person Act, Labour MP Tonia Antoniazzi leads a bid to end the criminalisation of women who end pregnancies at home. LYNNE WALSH reports
The desperate French president keeps running up the same political cul-de-sac. DENNIS BROE offers an explanation
