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The text gave rise to heated debates in the National Assembly, no doubt that it will still cringe in the Senate.

The bill aiming to extend the legal deadline for abortion, adopted on first reading by the deputies, will be examined in the Senate as part of a parliamentary "niche" of the PS group, on January 20, announced Thursday in the 'AFP Laurence Rossignol.

The text must still be formally included in the agenda of the Senate at the conference of presidents.

The next meeting is scheduled for Wednesday.

Extend the legal period of access to abortion from 12 to 14 weeks

The bill, which extends the legal period of access to abortion from 12 to 14 weeks of pregnancy (16 weeks of amenorrhea), was voted on October 9 at first reading by the deputies by 86 votes in favor, 59 against and 7 abstentions.

Supported by EDS MP Albane Gaillot, it obtained broad support from LREM.

It has been supported by the whole of the left, but from the right to the centrists, opponents have criticized provisions they believe to “unbalance” the Veil law.

In the right-wing majority Senate, the bill will likely be rejected.

But for the vice-president PS, Laurence Rossignol, its examination at first reading "will make it possible to advance the shuttle".

Problem of access to abortion

The Minister of Health, Olivier Véran, had shown during the examination at the Bourbon Palace of great caution, facing a "sensitive" subject and a "premature" debate.

It is "not sure" that it "goes to the end", he noted a fortnight later, in the discussion on the draft budget of Social Security for 2021.

The text follows a parliamentary report by the National Assembly's Women's Rights delegation which advocated this measure on the delay in abortion.

Due to a lack of practitioners and the gradual closure of abortion centers, several weeks often elapse between the first appointment and the operation.

Each year, between 3,000 and 4,000 women "out of time" would go abroad to have an abortion, according to a parliamentary report published in 2000. The National Consultative Ethics Committee (CCNE), which the government seized "to do a complete job. And enlighten the debates, must give its opinion on Friday.

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