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A former opponent of marriage for all and close to the anti-abortion movement Common Sens, the senator from Yonne, among the elected representatives of both chambers, is the only Macronist to have opposed the inclusion in the Constitution of ” guaranteed freedom” of access to abortion.
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A historic vote, almost unanimously hailed as such: on the evening of Wednesday February 29, the Senate approved, in the same terms as the Assembly, the bill constitutionalizing the “guaranteed freedom” access to abortion. The Parliament meeting in Congress in Versailles on Monday must finish ratifying all of this. The left and the presidential majority, who have multiplied initiatives on this subject for months and ended up agreeing to bring this development to fruition, competed for emphasis. The whole majority? Eeeeeh no.
Because among the 50 senators who voted against the text, we find Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, elected Renaissance and former multiple secretary of state and minister delegate from 2017 to 2022. He is thus the only parliamentarian from the presidential camp to have attended opposite,