A symbolic guest. The Prime Minister will arrive accompanied by Jean Veil at the Palace of Versailles, where Parliament meets in Congress to deliberate on a revision of the Constitution in order to include “the freedom guaranteed to a woman to have recourse to an abortion”, learned Monday March 4 from the Franceinfo political service. Jean Veil is one of the three sons of Simone Veil who defended the law decriminalizing abortion when she was Minister of Health. Follow our live stream.
The Catholic Church calls for “fasting and prayer”. The Conference of Bishops of France (CEF) calls on Monday “to fasting and prayer”while Parliament meets in the afternoon in Congress at the Palace of Versailles to include voluntary termination of pregnancy (abortion) in the Constitution. “Our country would have honored itself by including the promotion of the rights of women and children”states a press release signed in particular by the president of the CEF, Eric de Moulins-Beaufort. “Let us pray above all that our fellow citizens will rediscover the taste for life, for giving it, for receiving it, for accompanying it, for having and raising children”the bishops still plead.
The majority and the opposition welcome a “historic” day. “Often, we have overused the word ‘historical’, but here, I think it is appropriate”estimated Aurore Bergé, Minister responsible for Equality between women and men, while Parliament meets in Congress to this effect at the Château de Versailles, the inclusion of abortion in the Constitution. “It’s rare, these moments in political history, when you know that you are writing the history of France and the world”declared Mathilde Panot, the leader of the Insoumis deputies.
“There is no suspense.” This was declared by the President of the National Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet. The reform will be adopted with a three-fifths majority of the votes cast by deputies and senators. The inclusion of abortion in the Constitution has already passed its most delicate stage in Parliament on Wednesday with the favorable vote of elected officials at the Luxembourg Palace.
The session will begin at 3:30 p.m. and voting will be open for 45 minutes. “The explanations of vote, lasting five minutes, will take place alternately between the groups of the National Assembly and the Senate, in descending order of their respective numbers”explains the National Assembly.
Emmanuel Macron plans to participate in a ceremony on March 8. The President of the Republic plans to participate and speak at the ceremony of sealing the Constitution by the Minister of Justice, after Congress has voted to include voluntary termination of pregnancy in the Constitution, franceinfo has learned with those around him. This ceremony is scheduled for this Friday, March 8, on the occasion of International Women’s Rights Day.