France will be the only country in the world that includes abortion in his Constitution after the Senate this Wednesday approved without changes the text that the National Assembly voted on last month.

The Senate, with 267 votes in favor and 50 against, approved the text voted by the National Assembly on January 30 last year.

MPs and senators will meet next Monday at Palace of Versailles at a joint Congress to change Magna Carta and include this constitutional reform, which requires three-fifths of parliamentarians.

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“We have written a page in the history of women’s rights. This is a historic vote. We will be the first country in the world to write into the Constitution women’s freedom to control their own bodies.“, said Justice Minister Eric Dupont-Moretti, who is responsible for advocating for the reform by the executive branch.

Half a century after the legalization of abortion in France, the country took this step, a decision supported by the president, Emmanuel Macronfollowing the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn case law that provided federal protection to abortion rights in that country.

“I have committed to making irreversible the freedom of women to have voluntary termination of pregnancy by writing it into the Constitution. The Senate has taken a decisive step,” the president said on social media.

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Although he does not have a majority in either chamber, Macron managed to push through the measure, which enjoys broad popular support.

The left opposition received it with enthusiasm, but the right did not oppose it on the eve of the European elections and for fear of getting a reactionary image in society, which is why the text received majority supporteven the far right.

Some conservative voices in the Senate rose to propose amendments to the text that would have delayed its inclusion in the Constitution, but they were rejected by senators.

Moment of Harmony

Thus, the President has reached a point of agreement in the mandate, within which he experiences many difficulties in implementing his measures, with widespread opposition in some laws, such as the pension reform or the Pension Security Law. immigration law.

The constitutional reform will change Article 34, which will include “guaranteed freedom of a woman to resort to voluntary termination of pregnancy”.

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Although he admitted that the right to abortion in France is not currently under threat, the Minister of Justice considered it “necessary” to register abortion in order to “In the future, no majority will be able to doubt this.”.

He recalled the case of the United States, as well as Hungary and Poland, where conservative parties limited the right to abortion, and noted that in the future this could happen in France.

This measure will make it more difficult to change because it would require a three-fifths supermajority to change the Constitution again.

As senators debated the reform, a small group of anti-abortion activists demonstrated outside the chamber, while others did so further back in support of the new measure.

EFE