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.”