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Constitutional change could face fight in Senate after national assembly approves measure by 493 votes to 30

France’s lower house of parliament has overwhelmingly approved a measure to inscribe abortion as a “guaranteed freedom” in the constitution, a pledge made by the president, Emmanuel Macron, last year.

But the controversial plan now goes to the upper-house Senate, where it faces resistance from the conservative Republicans and the far-right National Rally.

The measure passed the national assembly late on Tuesday by a vote of 493 to 30, with almost all members of Macron’s centrist minority coalition as well as leftwing opposition parties approving.

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[–] Doorbook@lemmy.world -4 points 7 months ago

When you debate a change of law you need to think what could go wrong. One of the issue in other countries such as Canada and the UK is sex-selective abortion:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/selective-abortions-gender-tests-girls-uk-labour-a8540851.html

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3281173/

There is no reason to believe this is not something need to be addressed in new laws when considering abortion.

For example is seems that in the UK clincs are not allowed to provide information about fetus sex and restrict it to genetics information.

In canada, there were clinic that open mainly for people to knwow the fetus sex leading to sex-selective abortion.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/fetal-gender-testing-offered-at-private-clinics-1.1183673

In the US, abortion among lower income was higher than other.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3780732/

Having to abort because you can't afford it and have social security net, is different than not wanting to have a baby and different than not wanting to have a girl or a boy for social reason.

Therefore, I argue that before a modification for a law to happen, a basic statistical analysis of abortion in the country with a few more details such as age, sex, clincs location, ethnicity and income are essential to create set of laws that support people to make the right decision.

Note, searching for details in France is tricky because need to maybe the search need to be French to find more details.