The question of the legal period for performing an abortion will return to Parliament. Christophe Castaner, assured this Wednesday that a law extending the period of voluntary termination of pregnancy from 12 to 14 weeks would soon be examined by the National Assembly.
“Like many members of my group, I want [la proposition de loi] be on our agenda at the end of November, ”explained the boss of the deputies of La République en Marche, in an interview with Parisian published this Wednesday evening.
Abortion threatened “in practice”
“In France, abortion is not threatened in law, but it is in practice. There are real territorial and social inequalities. If we want to guarantee a real right equal to those which must be protected, it is necessary to lengthen the deadlines, ”he added. “We want this text to succeed,” said this walker from the start, assuring that, even in the event of rejection of the Senate, “we would have time, in January-February to adopt it definitively in the National Assembly Before the end of the five-year term.
Asked about the reservations that the President of the Republic had expressed on such a reform, the former Minister of the Interior admitted that he did not “have the same approach” as Emmanuel Macron. “But following the opinion of the National Consultative Ethics Council which sheds light on the debate, nothing prevents this text from being completed,” he argues.
The Senate against the passage from 12 to 14 weeks
The deputy Albane Gaillot, ex-LREM, now not registered, had passed by the National Assembly in October 2020 a bill aiming to extend the period of access to abortion from 12 to 14 weeks of pregnancy (16 weeks of amenorrhea), to respond to a lack of practitioners and the gradual closure of abortion centers. Then the Senate dominated by the right had rejected it. Socialist deputies then sought to re-register the text in the Assembly but renounced it in the face of hundreds of LR amendments.
Since then, Emmanuel Macron told the magazine at the end of June She that he was “not in favor” of the extension to 14 weeks, the abortion being “more traumatic in these times”. Questioned this Wednesday evening, Albane Gaillot for his part explained “to believe that it is good news that this bill will be registered, that we are going to debate it and that it will be voted”. “Good news for women,” she added.