“Including abortion in the Constitution has achieved consensus,” welcomes Frédéric Valletoux. “I experienced it with a lot of pride and undoubtedly as a historic moment too,’ he said.

In total, 780 parliamentarians approved the introduction into article 34 of the basic text of the sentence: “The law determines the conditions under which the freedom guaranteed to women to have recourse to a voluntary termination of pregnancy is exercised’ ““A moment of national unity where the votes, very largely, went to vote for this inscription, the minister said.