Inclusion of abortion in the constitution: “the next fight is now to guarantee access throughout the territory”

Le député LFI de l'Hérault, Sébastien Rome, estime que le combat pour la garantie d'accès à l'IVG n'est pas terminé. J.-M. Mart

The LFI deputy for Hérault, Sébastien Rome, voted “for history”, the inclusion of voluntary termination of pregnancy in the constitution . He will go to Ganges on Thursday to see, on the ground, the reality of access to abortion.

Including abortion in the constitution is a historic day ?

It is a historic day because it closes, with a clear score, the first phase of a long fight that began with the law carried by Simone Veil , that of the recognition of abortion as a freedom to dispose of one's body and one's life. The inclusion in the Constitution definitively guarantees that this freedom can never again be called into question in France, and this is not just a symbol when we see that this right is now in decline. almost everywhere in the world.

The Insoumis bill in 2022 wanted to go further…

The text, carried by Mathilde Panot, was in fact intended to include the right of access to abortion in the constitution. This is the next fight. Because if the right is acquired today, it will always be possible to limit its access, by reducing the time for abortion, by not favoring a fair distribution of centers IVG throughout the country or simply by not devoting the necessary resources to it.

Isn’t that already the case today ?

I am going to Ganges, starting this Thursday, to see the reality on the ground and see, since the closure of the maternity ward (in December 2022), how this right exists. We are told that this maternity ward is only suspended until 2025, while a new clinic is built, and that a local perinatal center is built. allows the monitoring of patients until then. But you need resources, obstetricians obviously, and in recent months, for an abortion, you have had to go to Montpellier or Nîmes, which necessarily lengthens the delays.< /p>

More generally, there is still one in four women who must change department to have an abortion. Others, because the human means to achieve a  IVG in good conditions are not guaranteed, even cross the border, on the advice of professionals, and go to Spain or Belgium. I have been told that in certain hospitals, when there is a shortage of staff, it is not uncommon to dig into the abortion department. nbsp;so that there are resources everywhere in the territory, with properly trained professionals. I would also like to remind you that we experienced a disruption in the supply of abortion pills last year, but this is also one of the conditions of the decision. access to abortion.

This still requires the law ?

This necessarily already requires human and financial means, included in the budgetary programming laws. Women's rights are put forward by the government as a priority but this is not translated very concretely in a budgetary manner. We must not stop at words, this must be a priority, and even more so since this vote in Congress this Monday.

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