The rise of preservative anti-SIV or antichoix conservative movements in the United States and in certain European countries such as Poland and, more recently, Italy arouses legitimate concern. Even in the places where it has been legalized for a long time, the use of abortion is a practice which raises many questions of an ethical and philosophical order so that its legitimacy is never fully established. The virulence of anti-EVG attacks, the disinformation conveyed by social networks oblige vigilance when it is not a political counter-offensive: the defense of the right to abortion occupied an essential place in the campaign of Joe Biden mid-term elections. She helped re-mobilize part of the Democratic electorate, still in shock from the decision made in June by the Supreme Court to return to her Roe vs Wade judgment, which guaranteed at the federal level, for half a century, the right Americans to interrupt their pregnancy.
In this context, the vote in the hemicycle of the National Assembly, Thursday, November 24, was reassuring. By 337 votes for, 18 abstentions and 32 votes against, the deputies voted so that access to abortion, authorized in 1975 by the Veil law, which supervised the decriminalization of abortion, benefits from legal protection additional. If the process comes to an end, it will be included in the French Constitution that “the law guarantees the effectiveness and equal access of the right to abortion”.
To achieve this broad vote, the group La France rebellious and the presidential majority, which each defended a bill, agreed to make common cause. This union of circumstance revealed, by contrast, the divisions of the right and the extreme right, which were distributed between voting for, against and abstention.
lack of practitioners
For the constitutional proposal to lead, it is now necessary that the Senate, with a majority of the right, votes the text in identical terms, which is not acquired, then that the French are consulted by referendum or that Congress Be together, if the President of the Republic takes up the text on his own. The path therefore remains long and random. On the sidelines of the deputies’ vote, a viavoice survey commissioned by the High Council for Equality between Women and Men indicates that 81 % of French people declare themselves favorable to the constitutionalization of the right to abortion. Everything therefore seems to indicate that no serious threat weighs in France on the use of abortion.
However, do not be fooled. For a series of reasons which are due to the lack of practitioners, to the sometimes defective information available to women, to the fact that some doctors and hospital services are reluctant to practice an unwanizing act, abortion remains for too many women a route of the fighter. The inequalities between regions are glaring, as shown in the parliamentary report of the Delegation to Women’s Rights. Many find themselves out of delay, for lack of care, which pushed the legislator, a few months ago, to lengthen the legal deadline from twelve to fourteen weeks. -hidden = “True”>
This observation of failure should encourage the Ministry of Health to be inventive and combative to find satisfactory solutions in each part of the territory. Parliamentarians should exercise their right of control more offensive. Otherwise, everything that happened Thursday, November 24 in the grounds of the National Assembly will appear as a way of reassuring yourself on the cheap.