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Macron wants abortion access inscribed in EU charter of rights

France becomes first country to explicitly guarantee freedom to abortion in constitution

Special Eiffel Tower message at France’s historic abortion right vote

Parliamentary congress passed a vote, making France the first country in the world to enshrine abortion access in its Constitution

SEE: Tears as senators back making abortion a constitutional freedom

France is on its way to being first country in world to enshrine abortion access in its constitution

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Why Macron wants the right to abortion added to French constitution

The president announced the plan as part of an homage to the French lawyer instrumental in making abortion legal in France in 1975

This month in history – November 10, 50 and 100 years ago in France

We look back at important events that happened in November 2012, 1972 and 1922

France proposes bill to enshrine right to abortion in constitution

The government has said it will ‘strongly support’ the measure, which comes in the wake of the overturning of Roe v. Wade in the US

Americans demonstrate in Paris against US threat to abortion right

The women waved coathangers as a symbol of backstreet abortions; we look at the current abortion laws in the US, France and UK

Whistleblowers, nursing homes: What French MPs are debating this week

Our round-up of key points politicians will be looking at, and other important official dates for the week.

Grande dame of politics leaves legacy of rights

French politician, Académie Française member and Auschwitz survivor Simone Veil, who died on June 30, aged 89, is to be buried in the Panthéon, a homage paid to France’s greatest citizens

Veil should be admitted to Panthéon, petitioners say

Tens of thousands of people calling for Simone Veil to be ‘panthéonisée’ in honour of her life’s work

Abortion

Macron wants abortion access inscribed in EU charter of rights

Special Eiffel Tower message at France’s historic abortion right vote

SEE: Tears as senators back making abortion a constitutional freedom

Why Macron wants the right to abortion added to French constitution

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