French President Emmanuel Macron expressed, yesterday, Wednesday, his desire for the right to abortion to be enshrined in the Constitution of France “as quickly as possible”, in a speech to mark 65 years of the Constitution of the Fifth Republic.
“May we be able to reach a wording that reconciles the points of view” between the National Assembly, in favor of mentioning the “right” to Voluntary Termination of Pregnancy (IVG), and the Senate, in favor of the term “freedom”, declared Macron, to that “this happens as quickly as possible”.
The issue of abortion rights caught Macron off guard at the beginning of his second five-year presidential term. As soon as the United States Supreme Court revoked the right to abortion in June 2022, the left and the presidential camp each presented their own proposed law to enshrine IVG in French fundamental law.
The first to reach parliament was the text from the party A Esquerda Insubmissa, which was approved by an overwhelming majority.
The Senate then changed it, replacing the concept of “right” with “freedom” to have abortion.
The head of state revisited the issue at the beginning of March, promising to include it in a “constitutional review bill” – a commitment still in the making, seven months later.
