Health professionals are concerned about the right to abortion. In a column published in Le Monde, a hundred of them were alarmed, fearing that women could not take the steps necessary to terminate an unwanted pregnancy in time, due to containment measures.
"This health crisis reinforces a certain number of difficulties", affirms Danielle Gaudry, activist and gynecologist, interviewed by Europe 1. "We had the echo of certain public centers which did not have any more access to the blocks to be able to receive the women. "
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Extension of legal deadline refused
Wednesday, the socialist senator of Oise, Laurence Rossignol, tabled an amendment asking for the extension of two weeks of the legal deadline for the voluntary termination of pregnancy. In vain: the amendment was rejected. However, according to Doctor Nathalie Trignol, this is the only solution that is necessary.
"We have women in confinement with a spouse who is not aware of the pregnancy; underage girls who cannot leave their homes because it is difficult to justify, during confinement, that the we're going to go for a walk for half a day, "laments the doctor, a member of the national association of abortion and contraception centers. "The extension of the period is therefore essential if we want to allow women to maintain this right to abortion in the most suitable conditions possible," she adds. This is all the more necessary and essential since it is impossible today for women who are late to go to Spain or the Netherlands to have an abortion.
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