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French lawmakers on Monday voted to amend Article 34 of their constitution to state that “a woman has the guaranteed freedom to have recourse to an abortion,” strengthening a 1975 law that ...

Hundreds of people rallied in defence of abortion rights on Saturday in Paris and other cities in France -- the first country ...

"The Senate has written a new page in women's rights." None of France's major political parties represented in Parliament has questioned the right to abortion, which was decriminalized in 1975.

France became the ... "real threats to women's rights." The conservatives, meanwhile, tried to dispel their unease about the constitutionalization of the right to abortion. While Olivier Marleix ...