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Constitutionalisation of abortion in France: a high-risk symbol

Author / Source : IEB Published on : 02/04/2024 News Temps de lecture : 3 min.

At Versailles on Monday 4 March 2024, French parliamentarians meeting in Congress voted 780 to 52 to include the freedom to have an abortion in the Constitution. The single article aimed at amending article 34 of the Constitution was added to the list of citizens' rights and freedoms in the following terms: "The law shall determine the conditions under which the freedom guaranteed to a woman to have recourse to a voluntary interruption of pregnancy is exercised". "Guaranteed freedom":...

PMA: René Frydman criticises the absolutism of the desire for a child

Author / Source : IEB Published on : 02/04/2024 News Temps de lecture : 1 min.

At a time when fertility is controlled, delayed if necessary or brandished as a right when the desire for a child arises, René Frydman's thoughts on the new tyranny of reproduction are relevant, but also questionable. Can we use techniques that make totally artificial procreation possible without falling into the abuses he fears, such as surrogate motherhood, the dream of an artificial womb or womb transplants for transgender men? What's more, while he warns against a diversion of medicine by ...

France and Belgium: abortion remains an icon of ideological battles

Author / Source : IEB Published on : 20/02/2024 News Temps de lecture : 2 min.

The bill is particularly opposed by many healthcare professionals, who see the constitutionalization of abortion as a direct threat to their freedom of conscience. In the event of the constitutionalization of abortion, Emmanuel Sapin, Professor of Pediatric and Neonatal Surgery, calls for the right of healthcare professionals to conscientious objection to abortion to be enshrined in the Constitution. In a letter co-signed by numerous healthcare professionals...