In France, lower house votes in favor of making abortion a constitutionally 'guaranteed freedom'

After hours of debate, setting the majority coalition and the left against the right-wing Republicans on [24 January], 99 lawmakers approved the constitutional amendment. "The law determines the conditions in which are carried out the guaranteed freedom of a woman to turn to an abortion,” reads the proposed modification of article 34. The formulation strikes a balance between a proposal passed by the National Assembly at the end of 2022 that would enshrine the “right” to abortion, and the Senate’s version a few months later that supported the concept of “freedom”. The National Assembly will formally adopt the amendment next week, on 30 January, and it will then go to the Senate. Any constitutional change needs to be adopted identically by the National Assembly and the Senate before being approved by three fifths of both chambers gathered together for a constitutional congress.
Read the full article here: RFI