5,000 women go abroad for abortions every year because they are late
, explains Céline Piques, spokesperson for the Dare feminism movement! A hundred people gathered in Paris on Saturday at the call of feminist associations and unions to demand better access to abortion.
For many reasons: they may have presented themselves quite late in an abortion center, or they may be confronted with a lack of space, too long delays, deserts in certain areas …
, she adds during this first mobilization in truth
from the Covid.
IVG = My choice
A obstacle course
also denounced, in mid-September, by the delegation for Women’s Rights to the National Assembly which demands to increase from 12 to 14 weeks of pregnancy the legal limit for performing a surgical abortion. A measure which will be the subject, with the abandonment of the double conscience clause, of a bill studied soon.
Fourteen weeks will not completely reduce the number of women who still have abortions abroad today. We would like harmonization at European level. In the Netherlands, for example, it’s 22 weeks
, details Céline Piques.
IVG = My choice
, Legal aborto
, The Veil law we take care of it
, could we read on the signs brandished by the demonstrators gathered on the Place de la République in Paris, at the call of associations and collectives such as Dare feminism, Les Effronté-es or the Maison des femmes de Paris, but also unions: UNEF, CGT, CFDT …
Orient applicants
Because even if the abortion rate increased slightly in 2019, with more than 232,000 abortions performed in France, the account is not there
, judge the organizations in a press release.
In particular because of the closure of many abortion centers (CIVG), the ban on midwives to perform instrumental abortions, the lack of information among young people and the existence of a double clause of consciousness.
A doctor can refuse to perform an act that he considers contrary to his values but he has a legal duty to reorient the person. But today, doctors refuse to perform abortion and reorient women. It’s illegal ! We must enforce the law
, claims Claire Charlès, president of Les Effronté es for whom, in fact, the right to abortion is called into question in many ways
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