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A View from France: The Struggle for Abortion Rights

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https://doi.org/10.5070/T8.48366
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Abstract

Seen from France, Donald Trump’s 2024 reelection was not a pivotal event, but the overturning of Roe v. Wade by the US Supreme Court on June 24, 2022 was. On that day, French women discovered that, in the most powerful democracy in the world, the laws protecting women’s bodies could be revoked. A public debate then emerged about securing abortion rights in France by turning the Veil abortion law of 1975 into an article in the constitution.


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