Macron vows to enshrine women’s rights to abortion in French Constitution in 2024

President Emmanuel Macron has promised to enshrine a woman’s right to an abortion in the French Constitution by next year

By The Associated Press
October 29, 2023

PARIS -- President Emmanuel Macron promised on Sunday to enshrine a woman's right to an abortion in the French Constitution by next year.

The president said on X, formerly Twitter, that a bill making this possible would be presented to his Cabinet by the end of this year so that “in 2024, the freedom of women to have an abortion will be irreversible.”

Continued; https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/macron-vows-enshrine-womens-rights-abortion-french-constitution-104460277

29.10.2023

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Chile’s abortion rights movement faces uphill battle

Advocates say fight continues despite rejection of new constitution last year that would have enshrined reproductive rights.

By Charis McGowan
10 Mar 2023

Santiago, Chile – Siomara Molina stands on the steps of the Chilean National Library on a busy street in the heart of Chile’s capital.

Waving fists in the air and wearing green scarves, symbolic of the Latin American movement for abortion rights, Molina and the dozens of women around her chant: “Abortion yes, abortion no, that’s my decision”.

Continued: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/3/10/chiles-abortion-rights-movement-faces-uphill-battle

The challenge of enshrining abortion rights in the French constitution

Issued on: 10/03/2023
Romain BRUNET

During a speech given on International Woman’s Day, French President Emmanuel Macron announced the decision to put forward a bill enshrining abortion rights in the country's constitution. Despite being lauded by women’s rights groups, changing the constitution may be more difficult than it appears.

Perhaps in an attempt to divert attention from the backlash his government is facing over the recent pension reform proposal, Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday, March 8 announced his intention to cement abortion rights in the French constitution as he paid tribute to feminist activist Gisèle Halimi, who greatly influenced the passing in 1975 of the Veil Act granting women the right to abortion and contraception.

Continued: https://www.france24.com/en/france/20230310-the-challenge-of-enshrining-abortion-rights-in-the-french-constitution

10.03.2023

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Macron says will put right to abortion in French constitution in ‘coming months’

Issued on: 08/03/2023

French President Emmanuel Macron said Wednesday his government would put forward a draft law enshrining abortion rights in the French constitution within months.

In a speech paying tribute to the late Gisele Halimi, a feminist activist and pioneer for reproductive rights, Macron said an amendment to the constitution would be submitted to parliament.

Continued: https://www.france24.com/en/france/20230308-macron-says-will-put-right-to-abortion-in-french-constitution-in-coming-months

08.03.2023

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France a step closer to adding abortion rights to constitution

Issued on: 02/02/2023
Text by: RFI

The French Senate has voted to include the right to abortion in the constitution, allowing the process to continue, though the path to a constitutional amendment is long.

After much debate, the Senate voted on Wednesday in favour of including the right to abortion in the constitution. With 166 votes for and 152 against, the chamber approved a bill introduced by lawmakers in the National Assembly from the hard-left France Unbowed, with support from the presidential majority.

Continued: https://www.rfi.fr/en/france/20230202-france-moves-closer-to-adding-abortion-rights-in-constitution-after-senate-approves-text

02.02.2023

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South Carolina’s Supreme Court Says the State Constitution Protects a Right to Abortion

The court ruled that the state's six-week abortion ban violates the right to privacy.

JACOB SULLUM
1.6.2023

The South Carolina Supreme Court yesterday ruled that the right to privacy protected by the state's constitution includes a right to abortion. The court concluded that a 2021 law prohibiting abortion after fetal cardiac activity can be detected, which typically happens around the sixth week of pregnancy, violates that right.

"We hold that the decision to terminate a pregnancy rests upon the utmost personal and private considerations imaginable, and implicates a woman's right to privacy," Justice Kaye Hearn writes in the lead opinion. "While this right is not absolute, and must be balanced against the State's interest in protecting unborn life, this Act, which severely limits—and in many instances completely forecloses—abortion, is an unreasonable restriction upon a woman's right to privacy and is therefore unconstitutional."

Continued: https://reason.com/2023/01/06/south-carolinas-supreme-court-says-the-state-constitution-protects-a-right-to-abortion/

06.01.2023

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French right votes down move to make abortion constitutional right

Further proposals to be put before lower house next month after first attempt rejected in senate

Angelique Chrisafis in Paris
Thu 20 Oct 2022

The French government has said it supports making the country the first in the world to enshrine abortion as a constitutional right, after the right-dominated senate voted down the left’s first attempt at a proposal.

Several political parties in France, from the left to the centrist lawmakers of Emmanuel Macron’s Renaissance party, began pushing for abortion rights to be written into the constitution after the US supreme court’s decision in June to overturn the landmark Roe v Wade ruling, which recognised a woman’s constitutional right to an abortion and legalised it nationwide.

Continued: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/20/french-right-votes-down-move-to-make-abortion-constitutional-right

French lawmakers propose bill to inscribe abortion rights in constitution

Constitutional law would cement abortion rights for future generations, says member of parliament

Associated Press in Paris
Sat 25 Jun 2022

A group of lawmakers from the French president’s party will propose a bill to inscribe abortion rights into the country’s constitution, according to a statement by two members of parliament on Saturday.

The move comes after the US supreme court overturned a 50-year-old ruling and stripped women’s constitutional protections for abortion.

Continued: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/25/french-lawmakers-propose-bill-abortion-rights-constitution

25.06.2022

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The activists going state by state to make abortion rights consitutional law

With Roe v. Wade in the balance, reproductive rights activists in Vermont and Michigan are campaigning to pass state ballot measures to protect abortion rights. As one activist put it, “Legislatures are not representing the people.”

BY ABIGAIL TRACY
JUNE 22, 2022

Lucy Leriche was seated in a Chicago conference room, attending a national policy conference for Planned Parenthood in June 2018, when news of former Supreme Court justice Anthony Kennedy’s retirement broke. The announcement sent a chilling effect through the room. With Donald Trump in the Oval Office, an inevitability came into focus: “At that moment, we all knew, I knew, that the end of Roe v. Wade was near,” Leriche, a former Vermont state representative who is now the vice president of Vermont public affairs for the Northern New England chapter of Planned Parenthood and the Planned Parenthood Vermont Action Fund, recalled in an interview. As this reality sunk in, she vowed to do everything she could to protect women’s reproductive rights in her home state of Vermont.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/06/ballot-measures-abortion-rights-constitutional-law-roe-v-wade

N. Ireland – Papers lodged in legal challenge against abortion regulations

Published 24 May 2021

Pro-life campaigners have formally lodged proceedings in Belfast against regulations giving the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland powers to direct the commissioning of abortion services.

Belfast law firm Hewitt & Gilpin has been instructed by the Centre for Bioethical Reform Northern Ireland (CBRNI) and the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) to mount a challenge to the Abortion (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2021.

Continued: https://www.irishlegal.com/article/papers-lodged-in-legal-challenge-against-abortion-regulations

24.05.2021