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French Senate Passes Bill Seeking to Enshrine Abortion Access into the Constitution
LifeSite News ^ | 2/2/23 | Andreas Wailzer

Posted on 02/09/2023 5:54:29 PM PST by marshmallow

Due to the changed text, the bill will now have to go back to the National Assembly.

PARIS (LifeSiteNews) — The French Senate voted in favor of a constitutional amendment that seeks to enshrine access to abortion into the country’s constitution.

The legislation was passed by a 166 to 152 vote on February 1 in the upper house of France’s parliament, the French newspaper Le Monde reports.

The amendment seeks to insert “the freedom of women to terminate their pregnancies” into the French constitution. This represents a change from the bill passed in the French National Assembly (the lower house of the French parliament) in November 2022. The original text of the proposed legislation sought to introduce a “right to abortion” whereas the new text speaks only of the “freedom” to have an abortion. The proposed law was adopted by an amendment put forth by Senator Philippe Bas of the conservative Les Républicains party, who presented it as a compromise.

Due to the changed text, the bill will now have to go back to the National Assembly. If it were to pass there, a referendum would be held to decide whether or not the legislation will become a part of the French constitution.

Socialist Senator Laurence Rossignol’s remarks showed that the legislation was meant to protect so-called “abortion rights” in case a less pro-abortion government ever came to power in France.

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1 posted on 02/09/2023 5:54:29 PM PST by marshmallow
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2 posted on 02/09/2023 5:59:37 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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French Senate Passes Bill Seeking to Enshrine Abortion Access Self-Inflicted Genocide into the Constitution
3 posted on 02/09/2023 6:00:05 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censoprship is ████ █ ██████ ███████ ███ ██████ ██ ████████. FJB.)
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To: marshmallow

Same stuff is happening across the entire world. It seems the Anti Christ is very near.


4 posted on 02/09/2023 6:44:16 PM PST by Revel
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