France will include the freedom to resort to abortion in its Constitution, President Emmanuel Macron announced on social networks on Sunday. A bill to this effect will be “presented to the Council of Ministers by the end of the year”, so that “in 2024, the freedom of women to resort to abortion will be irreversible”, writes Emmanuel Macron .
The Head of State made this commitment on March 8, International Women’s Rights Day, responding to concerns arising from the cancellation a year and a half ago of the ruling guaranteeing the United States the right to abortion. throughout the territory.
Nine out of ten French people in favor
In France, the right to abortion (voluntary termination of pregnancy) is currently recognized in an ordinary law of 1975 and inscription in constitutional stone would complicate any future attempt by the legislator to suppress it or seriously undermine it, according to its defenders.
According to a November 2022 survey, nearly nine in ten French people (86%) are in favor of including the right to abortion in the Constitution. Published in September, the latest official figures show an increasing number of abortions in 2022 (234,000) in France after two years of exceptional decline linked to the Covid-19 epidemic.