A societal earthquake summarized through a simple paradox: “It only took six voices to upset the lives of millions of women”.

This is how, in a column signed by 400 lawyers and published on Saturday by the JDD, the decision taken on Friday by the Supreme Court of the United States to revoke the Roe v.

Wade.

Dating back to 1973, it had enshrined the right to abortion for almost half a century.

This decision with immediate effect authorizes each American state to prohibit voluntary terminations of pregnancy, and nine have already taken the plunge.

These why these actors of French justice, including Karen Noblinski, Julie Couturier, Vincent Nioré, Rachel-Flore Pardo, call "without further delay for the inclusion of the right to abortion in the French Constitution".

Because the decision of the Supreme Court, “a symbol of an unprecedented decline in freedoms, endangers the safety and health of women (…).

It also raises the question of the guarantee of this right in France, where nearly 230,000 women have recourse to abortion each year”.

The signatory lawyers add: “In France, the right to abortion is protected by the law of January 17, 1975, which we owe to Simone Veil.

The recent legislative elections remind us that political balances are fragile, and that this law could one day be threatened”.

A bill on the table

This call joins that made at the start of the weekend by the new president of the LREM group in the Assembly, Aurore Bergé.

She announced that a bill "to include respect for abortion in our Constitution" was going to be tabled.

Proposal then supported by the Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne.

Chère@auroreberge, the government will strongly support this bill.

For all women, for human rights, we must engrave this achievement in stone.

Parliament must be able to come together very broadly around this text.

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– Elisabeth BORNE (@Elisabeth_Borne) June 25, 2022

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But another member of the presidential camp, François Bayrou (MoDem), partly showered this desire.

“Is it useful for the country, at the moment, to go and organize a referendum on this question?

“, he wondered this Sunday on BFMTV.

“It is nevertheless surprising that it is what is happening in the United States (…) which leads to a certain number of effervescent reactions in French political life”, continued the centrist, who is “not for that we trace American political life”.

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