Tag: Constitution
a public ceremony to seal the Constitution for Women’s Rights Day
This is the very last step for the inclusion of abortion in the French Constitution, and also the most symbolic. President Macron will be in Paris at noon at the…
IVG enshrined in the French Constitution: a victory for women, but not yet the end of the fight
News Published on 03/05/2024 at 6:19 p.m. Updated 03/05/2024 at 6:19 p.m. Reading 3 min. A historic decision, freedom of recourse to abortion was enshrined in the French constitution this…
IVG in the Constitution: “real inequalities in territorial access to care”
Obstacles still persist in France regarding access to abortion. While a new advance in law took place yesterday with the green light given to the inclusion of abortion as a…
In the news: the right to abortion in France engraved in the stone of the Constitution
“ France enshrines the right to abortion in its Constitution », notes the Times in London. “ France makes abortion a constitutional right in historic Versailles vote », exclaims the…
IVG in the Constitution: which senators and deputies voted against?
The constitutionalization of abortion was supported by 780 senators and deputies, but 72 other parliamentarians voted against the inclusion of abortion in the fundamental text. Here is the list of…
France was the first country in the world to enshrine the right to abortion in its constitution | Foreign countries
On Monday, the lower and upper houses of the Parliament voted in favor of the bill on abortion rights by votes of 780-72. France is the first country in the…
France enshrines the right to abortion in its Constitution
Meeting this Monday March 4 at a congress in Versailles, the French Parliament voted for the inclusion of voluntary termination of pregnancy (IVG) in the Constitution by 780 votes to…
Right to abortion: “Enshrining this right in the Constitution makes it practically untouchable”
It is a historic day for France which this Monday becomes the first country to explicitly include voluntary termination of pregnancy (IVG) in its Constitution. What does this change in…
how the Constitution became a political object – L’Express
What is a Constitution? The text which organizes the functioning of institutions, a law student would respond diligently. Fair, but incomplete definition. It does not reflect the evolution of our…
these 24 other revisions of the Constitution since 1958 – L’Express
For the seventeenth time in sixty-six years, all the parliamentarians – who today number 925 – will meet in Congress in the South wing of the Château de Versailles. And…