PARIS (AP) — A group of lawmakers belonging to French President Emmanuel Macron’s party said on Saturday they will propose a bill that would make the right to abortion be included in the country’s constitution.
The move comes after the US Supreme Court overturned a 50-year-old ruling that deprived women of constitutional protections against abortion.
In France, the right to abortion was already guaranteed in a 1975 law on voluntary termination of pregnancy, within a legal framework that criminalizes abortion.
Republican Movement Party MP Marie-Pierre Ricksen said the constitutional law would ensure abortion rights for future generations.
“What happened elsewhere shouldn’t have happened in France,” Ricksen said.
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The bill would include a provision that would make it impossible to “deprive a person of the right to voluntarily terminate a pregnancy”, according to a statement by two members of the National Assembly, France’s most powerful parliamentary assembly.
Aurora Berge, leader of Macron’s party group in parliament, called the US Supreme Court’s decision to abolish abortion rights “a disaster for women around the world”.
Macron expressed his solidarity with women in the United States after the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn an important half-century-old ruling that would result in abortion bans in nearly half of the states.
Macron said the decision undermines women’s liberties. “Abortion is the fundamental right of all women. It needs to be protected,” the French president tweeted on Friday night.
Source: Breitbart
