Comments from the President of the Senate, who opposes the constitutionalization of abortion, made Sophie Marceau jump, who responded to him on Instagram.
Opposed to the constitutionalization of voluntary termination of pregnancy (abortion), the President of the Senate Gérard Larcher declared Tuesday on France Info: “Abortion is not threatened in our country. If it were threatened, believe me, I would fight for it to be maintained. But I think that the Constitution is not a catalog of social and societal rights.”
These comments from the leader of the senators, a figure of the Republicans who dominate the Senate, aroused the anger of Sophie Marceau. The actress responded sharply to him on her Instagram account, without directly naming him: “Of course abortion is threatened! You really don’t care about the fate of women. You represent the patriarchy in all its glory: smug, backward and hypocritical. You shame our French society. » And the star who also spoke out against the platform in support of Gérard Depardieu, concludes with this last arrow: “As long as there are men like you, we will all be in danger. »
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Gérard Larcher’s position is not new on the subject, but it is causing trouble, on the eve of the examination by the National Assembly of the draft constitutional law aimed at including in the fundamental text that “the law determines the conditions in which the freedom guaranteed to women to have recourse to abortion is exercised.
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In the event of a favorable vote in the Assembly on January 30, the text would then go to the Senate the week of February 26, before a meeting of the Congress in Versailles (deputies and senators) at the beginning of March, where a three-fifths majority will be necessary to conclude the parliamentary review.
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