The amendment to Article 34 of the French Constitution states that “the law determines the conditions by which is exercised the freedom of women to have recourse to an abortion, ...

French lawmakers passed a bill to enshrine the right to an abortion in the constitution, a historic move prompted by concerns over the rollback of abortion laws in the U.S.

When the United States Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022, French women were paying close attention. They watched with alarm as those across the Atlantic lost their long-standing ...

PARIS — French lawmakers on Monday overwhelmingly approved a bill to enshrine abortion rights in France's constitution, making it the only country to explicitly guarantee a woman’s right to ...

Fearing that a future government could do what the U.S. Supreme Court did — reverse the right to abortion — France champions women's rights.

France becomes first country to make abortion a constitutional right 01:45. Paris — France became the first country to enshrine a woman's right to an abortion in its constitution. Lawmakers from ...

PARIS — French lawmakers on Monday overwhelmingly approved a bill that will enshrine a woman’s right to an abortion in their nation’s constitution, a historic move designed to prevent the ...

France Bill to enshrine abortion in constitution goes to a vote in French Senate None of France’s major political parties oppose the right to abortion, which was decriminalized in 1975 ...

Article 49.3 of the French Constitution enables a government to push a bill through the National Assembly, France’s lower house of Parliament, without a vote.. The move is perfectly legal, and ...