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UPDATE, 3\/4\/2024:<\/strong> With a special session in Versailles, France has become the first country<\/a> in the world to make abortion a constitutional right. Three-fifths of lawmakers were required to vote in favor of making it a \u201cguaranteed freedom,” and that hurdle was easily cleared in a 780-72 vote.<\/p>\n

Abortion was decriminalized in France in 1975, and is legal through 14 weeks of pregnancy. Though the constitution has now been formally changed to include abortion, preborn children will, at least for now, remain protected from abortion after 14 weeks of pregnancy. Pro-abortion lawmakers celebrated the vote, with Mathilde Panot, who introduced the bill in the National Assembly, calling it “a promise for all women who fight all over the world for the right to have autonomy over their bodies \u2014 in Argentina, in the United States, in Andorra, in Italy, in Hungary, in Poland. This vote today tells them: your struggle is ours, this victory is yours.\u201d<\/p>\n

3\/1\/2024:<\/strong>Emmanuel Macron, the president of France, promised<\/a> to make abortion a constitutional right last year, and lawmakers have taken up that challenge. In January, the French National Assembly voted<\/a> 493-30 in favor of a bill that would amend the French constitution to include abortion as a “right.” Now, the Senate has followed suit.<\/p>\n

Wednesday, the Senate voted 267-50<\/a> in favor of the bill, which Macron applauded. “The Senate has taken a decisive step, which I applaud,” Macron said in a statement<\/a>. “I pledged to make women’s freedom to have recourse to abortion irreversible by enshrining it in the Constitution.”<\/p>\n

French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal further said the vote is an “immense step forward” that will mark “the political and parliamentary history of our country.”<\/p>\n