BERTRAND GUAY / AFP
While the constitutionalization of abortion was adopted by a very large majority this Monday, several left-wing women parliamentarians wanted to pay tribute to the feminist movements of yesterday and today.
A color is sometimes worth more than long speeches. On Monday, deputies and senators met in Congress in Versailles to include abortion in the supreme law. While the constitutional reform was adopted by a very large majority, 780 votes in favor – out of a majority of 512 -, several left-wing elected officials had decided to mark this day with a white stone. By a very symbolic action. To completely follow in the footsteps of feminist activists of yesteryear and today, these parliamentarians wore outfits in very symbolic colors. The president of the LFI deputies Mathilde Panot, who took to the podium, was then dressed in a dress and a scarf, both green, tied to her wrist.
While the elected representative of Val-de-Marne had herself tabled a constitutional bill in 2022 to include abortion in the 1958 text, Insoumise wanted, according to BFMTV, to salute the fight of “green tides”, name of the movement of these Argentine women who fought for several decades to obtain the legalization of abortion in their country. Until their victory at the end of 2020. Since then, the color, already a symbol of hope and health, has become that of “pro-choice” movements, which are working for women’s freedom in this area.
“Suffragettes Spirit”
Other women parliamentarians, from EELV in particular, chose other shades, and dressed in white and/or purple. “Suffragettes Spirit”, commented for her part the very media MP Sandrine Rousseau. Who published a photo of his group in front of the Château de Versailles where the Congress was held. A gesture “in solidarity with the American Democratic congresswomen who returned to Congress in white in memory of the suffragettes”, had also recalled the ecologist on France Info. Some, in the image, are dressed in purple or mauve pants or tops… Shades of colors that are far from insignificant, reminiscent of those displayed by feminist movements, including the MLF, in the years 1970. And which have since been taken up by current associations engaged in the fight against sexist and sexual violence.