SomniumOv
SomniumOv t1_ixpq3gx wrote
Reply to comment by Majormlgnoob in France moves closer to making abortion a constitutional right by Lakerlion
Yes, but the Right has that majority in the senate, and already refused a similar proposition in september.
They might still let it go through though, as the french public is really really not divided on the subject.
As the article states, a recent poll found that 80% of the voters want better protections for the right to abortion (and in the remaining 20% you're bound to have a lot who don't think it needs more protection because they think the current law is good enough, but are pro-right to abortion).
Outside of Integrist Catholics / TradCaths circles, there's not really any debate on abortion in France. The Far Right don't like it but they don't have the political drive to attack it, it would be a political self-inflicted wound for them.
SomniumOv t1_ixpnzua wrote
Reply to comment by AnyoneArnol in France moves closer to making abortion a constitutional right by Lakerlion
Unfortunately it now needs to go through the senate, where it will meet more opposition.
SomniumOv t1_jdwu3lf wrote
Reply to comment by Crimbobimbobippitybo in Annie Ernaux, the 2022 Nobel literature laureate, has backed calls for a thorough investigation after four female students said they were sexually assaulted by police in the western city of Nantes following a protest against President Emmanuel Macron’s deeply contentious pension reform by DoremusJessup
> an opening for Mélenchon
> she's as left as it gets.
Those two sentences do not compute together. There is a whole of a lot more "Left" of LFI.