Europe 1 with AFP 9:25 p.m., February 01, 2023

The Senate with a right-wing majority voted Wednesday, by 166 votes against 152, to enshrine in the Constitution the "freedom of women" to resort to abortion.

The Senate with a right-wing majority voted on Wednesday, by 166 votes to 152, to enshrine in the Constitution the "freedom of women" to have recourse to abortion, a formulation which abandons the notion of "right" dear to the left.

The text adopted in first reading by the senators, which must now return to the National Assembly, aims to complete article 34 of the Constitution with this formula: "The law determines the conditions under which the freedom of women is exercised. to terminate her pregnancy.

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