France on Monday enshrined the right to abortion in its constitution, a world first welcomed by women's rights groups as historic and harshly criticised by anti-abortion groups.
MPs and senators overwhelmingly backed the move, by 780 votes against 72, in a special joint vote of the two houses of parliament, under the gilded ceilings of Versailles Palace, just outside Paris.
Abortion rights activists gathered in central Paris cheered and applauded as the Eiffel Tower scintillated in the background and displayed the message "MyBodyMyChoice" as the result of the vote was announced on a giant screen.
Monday's vote enshrined in Article 34 of the French constitution that "the law determines the conditions in which a woman has the guaranteed freedom to have recourse to an abortion".
"France is at the forefront," said the head of the lower house of parliament, Yael Braun-Pivet, from French President Emmanuel Macron's centrist party.
@TautCockatooRepublican2mos2MO
How is killing babies a “protection”?
I think there’s a disconnect.
@TreatyVictoriaSocialist2mos2MO
A zygote, blastocyst or fetus is not a baby.
There's potential, albeit messy, that a fetus becomes a baby.
A fetus transitions to a baby, therefore a sui generis homo sapien, upon exiting the birth canal.
@Patriot-#1776Constitution2mos2MO
Demonstrably false. From the point of conception, the new life is a baby. He/she is a separate individual than his/her mother. Science.
@fart_smeller682mos2MO
how is it separate if it still lives in and feeds off the birthing person? plus, there's no brain, nothing going on with a fetus. it's basically nothing until much later in the growth process.
@Patriot-#1776Constitution2mos2MO
Alright, "Fart_Smeller68" – let's logically examine your arguments, and discuss some highly disturbing moral implications it brings about. Number 1:
How is it separate if it still lives in and feeds off the birthing person?
First off, I'd like to share something exciting about the English language with you – the great ancient word "mother." It's actually been used for (get this!) thousands of years to describe women, who give birth to babies, because women are the only people who give birth to babies. It's your lucky day – instead of humiliatingRead more
@SolidP0pul1stRepublican2mos2MO
Disgusting. Abortion is not a right. Sad to see the West following the worst parts of American culture, like children killing
@D1plom4tWillWorking Family2mos2MO
I love reading the Move to France posts of people because France codified abortion rights into law. Yet these same people ignore that France allows abortion to be legal up to 14 weeks - which is more restrictive than a vast majority of the US
@ThrilledLobbyGreen2mos2MO
@AbaloneIanWomen’s Equality2mos2MO
France has a better record of protecting women than the US. France
@Patriot-#1776Constitution2mos2MO
US has a better record of protecting female unborn children who will become women.
@Patriot-#1776Constitution2mos2MO
Another win for the Marxist Death Cult – but never forget, lovers of liberty, the Great Victory we won in 2022 with the Dobbs decision – the thousands of babies we've saved since then. They want to keep us discouraged, but remember this is the moral battle of a lifetime – we either stand for Life, unconditionally, or for the Holocaust of the Unborn.
@DopeyLocustGreen2mos2MO
This decisive action marks a vital progression in the struggle for women's independence and control over their own bodies.
@ISIDEWITH2mos2MO
Do you believe that enshrining abortion as a constitutional right impacts society positively or negatively, and why?
@Patriot-#1776Constitution2mos2MO
Negatively. Murder is always negative.
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