By allowing ads to appear on this site, you support the local businesses who, in turn, support great journalism.
France to seal the right to abortion in its constitution as world marks International Women's Day
preview.jpg
Pro-abortion supporters watch a live transmission of the congress session where French lawmakers have approved a bill that will enshrine a woman’s right to an abortion in the French Constitution, at Trocadero Plaza in Paris, Monday, March 4, 2024. The vote makes France the first country to have a constitutional right to abortion since the former Yugoslavia inscribed it in its 1974 constitution. - photo by AP Photo/Oleg Cetinic
PARIS (AP) — France’s leadership will use a Napoleon-era press to seal the right to abortion into the country's constitution in a historic ceremony on Friday that's open to the public — and designed to show support to women across the world on International Women’s Day. France is the first country to explicitly guarantee abortion rights in the national charter. While abortion is a deeply divisive issue in the United States, it's legal in nearly all of Europe and overwhelmingly supported in France, where it’s seen more as a question of public health and not politics.