Tribune. A true feminist icon, Ruth Bader Ginsburg leaves us her legacy of her fight for sexual and reproductive rights. The place it leaves vacant in the Supreme Court, in the hands of Trump, is yet another red flag. The freedom-killing laws on abortion adopted in recent years – in the United States and in Europe – were just as many others. On this world day for the right to abortion, we, elected officials, abortion professionals and feminist associations, plead for France to reaffirm the right of women to dispose freely of their body.
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To those who accuse us of eternally dissatisfied to brush aside the concerns that we have been voicing for many years, we oppose them with the figures. Every day, we observe the insufficiency of public policies in matters of sexuality education or the closure of many establishments specializing in abortion, which result – among other things – in an obstacle to freedom. choice of method of abortion for women. Every day, women pay the price of the conscience clause specific to abortion, which enshrines abortion as a separate act, stigmatizing and making people feel guilty.
French law allows abortion up to twelve weeks of pregnancy. Each year, in France, some 3,000 to 5,000 women are forced to go abroad to have an abortion because of the legal deadlines. And how many others cannot afford the many costs that this implies in terms of travel, accommodation and the cost of the intervention? The consequences for those forced to carry the pregnancy to term can be dramatic: psychosocial problems, rejection or abandonment of the baby, difficulties in exercising parental functions.
To those who appeal to the responsibility of women, we remind that none of them postpones their decision by distraction, lack of time or pleasure. Exceeding the legal deadlines is more a reflection of the difficulties of the journey and access of women to abortion than that of their difficulty in making a choice. We, elected officials, abortion professionals and feminist associations, refuse that the right to abortion be conditioned on the material resources of women.
For abortion to be a right for everyone, and not just for those who can afford it, the law must change. The trans-partisan bill aimed at extending the legal deadlines from twelve to fourteen weeks and removing the specific conscience clause will be examined on October 8. To provide your support, visit ivg-pour-toutes.fr.
Signatories: Albane Gaillot, Member of Parliament for Val-de-Marne EDS (ecology, democracy, solidarity group), Eric Alauzet, deputy of Doubs LREM, Delphine Bagarry, Member of Parliament for Alpes-de-Haute-Provence LREM, Delphine Batho, Member of Parliament for Deux-Sèvres EDS, Esther Benbassa, environmental senator from Paris, Moetai Brotherson, MP for Polynesia GDR (Democratic and Republican Left Group), Marie-George Buffet, Member of Parliament for Seine-Saint-Denis GDR, Annie Chapelier, dGuardian of the EDS, Guillaume Chiche, deputy of Deux-Sèvres EDS, Laurence Cohen, Senator of the Val-de-Marne CRCE, Yolaine De Courson, member of the Côte d’Or EDS, Jennifer de Temmerman, deputy of North EDS, Catherine Fabre, deputy of Gironde LREM, Elsa Faucillon, Member of Parliament for the Hauts-de-Seine GDR, Paula Forteza, French Member of Parliament established outside France EDS, Raphaël Gérard, deputy of the 4e constituency of Charente-Maritime LREM, Guillaume Gontard, senator from Isère CRCE (communist group, citizen republican and environmentalist), Michelle Greaume, Senator of the North CRCE, Régis Juanico, deputy of Loire PS, Hubert Julien-Laferrière, deputy of Rhône EDS, Jacques Krabal, deputy of Aisne LREM, Bastien Lachaud, Member of Parliament for Seine-Saint-Denis LFI, Jean-Luc Lagleize, deputy for Haute-Garonne Modem, Monique Lubin, Senator of the Landes PS, Michelle Meunier, senator of Loire-Atlantique PS, Sébastien Nadot, deputy for Haute-Garonne EDS, Matthieu Orphan, Member of Parliament for Maine-et-Loire EDS, Valerie Petit, Member of the 9th constituency of the North Agir ensemble, Stéphane Peu, Member of Parliament for Seine-Saint-Denis GDR, Eric Pouillat, deputy of Gironde LREM, Loïc Prud’homme, Member of Parliament for Gironde LFI, Jean-Hugues Ratenon, deputy of Reunion LFI, Raphaëlle Rémy-Leleu, advisor of Paris EE-LV, Muriel Ressiguier, Member of Parliament for Hérault, Laurence Rossignol, Senator of the Oise PS, Véronique Sehier, member of the Cese women’s rights delegation, Laura Slimani, Deputy Mayor of Rouen, Aurélien Taché, deputy of Val-d’Oise EDS, Frederique Tuffnell, Member of Parliament for Charente-Maritime EDS, Laurence Vanceunebrock, Member of Parliament for Allier Lrem, Cédric Villani, deputy of Essonne EDS, Stéphane Viry, deputy of the Vosges LR, Martine Wonner, member of the 4e Bas-Rhin L&T constituency, Gilles Required, general practitioner at CMS Romainville, associate professor in general medicine at Médecine Sorbonne University, Michel Teboul, doctor, former head of Unit of the CIVG de Port-Royal, Anne-Marie Curat, President of the National Council of the Order of Midwives, Ghada Hatem, gynecologist, founder of the Maison des femmes de Saint-Denis, Ancic (National association of abortion and contraception centers), Ciane (collective of associations concerned by pregnancy, birth and first days of life), collective Thanks Simone, The key (French coordination for the European women’s lobby), Forward all (s), FDFA (Women to say it, women to act), FNCIDFF (National Federation of National Information Centers on the Rights of Women and Families), Dare feminism, Planning familial 94, For an MEUF, Reivoc(Network IVG and contraception Occitanie) and Julie Gayet, actress.
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