France and abortion as a constitutional right: in which countries is it legal and in which it is not?

On Wednesday, 28, a bill promoted by the president Emmanuel Macron which seeks to convert abortion into a constitutional right in France It passed the second of its three major stages, after the Senate approved the initiative with 267 votes in favor and just 50 against.

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In January, the Chamber of Deputies had already done the same with an overwhelming majority, although it is expected that next Monday, March 4, a final joint vote will be held in Parliament where the proposal must obtain at least three-fifths of the votes. be approved.

The Macron government’s proposal seeks to modify article 34 of the Constitution to specify that “The law determines the conditions under which the freedom guaranteed to women to seek abortion is exercised.”.

The French president’s initiative did not receive opposition from any of the main political parties present in the French Parliament. On the other hand, the proposal indicates that it seeks to protect a right to “currents of opinion that seek to prevent at any cost a woman’s freedom to terminate a pregnancy if she so wishes”.

During the presentation of the proposal, the French government made reference to the American case, where the Supreme Court overturned the historic Roe vs. Wade in 1973 that guaranteed access to abortion.

Another country that has shown intentions to reverse this right is Poland, after in recent years increasingly restrictions have been imposed on the 1993 law that allowed the termination of pregnancy. In 2020, for example, the Constitutional Court ruled that women could no longer terminate pregnancies in cases of serious fetal deformities, including Down syndrome.

Furthermore, last year, a new tightening of legislation led thousands of Poles to protest in the streets.

In the following graph created by The trade You can find out in detail which countries abortion is legal, where it is illegal and under which special conditions apply.

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Source: Elcomercio

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