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
news 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