With the right to an abortion added to the constitution, it will be much harder to prevent women from voluntarily terminating a pregnancy in France, women’s rights and equality activists said.
The move was driven by concern that snowballed in France as the U.S. started rolling back abortion rights two years ago, when Roe v. Wade was overturned. French President Emmanuel Macron promised ...
According to the Fondation, this gave anti-abortion groups in France a sense of legitimacy in carrying out "attacks against the premises and organisations fighting for reproductive rights" and ...
Abortion had been criminalised in France since the 1800s, with convictions rising dramatically under the Vichy regime during World War II. Between 1940 and 1943, it was punishable by death.
And while several other countries include reproductive rights in their constitutions - France is the first to explicitly state that an abortion will be guaranteed. It becomes the 25th amendment to ...
France’s historic move to amend its constitution and enshrine a woman’s right to an abortion put the country in rare company. While the amendment didn’t necessarily expand access to abortion ...
Almost one year before she was first elected to the Virginia House of Delegates, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, a case that had federally protected the right of women to have an ...