# @katiecouricmedia on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2024-03-04T18:28:48.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Katie Couric Media (@katiecouricmedia) — https://gondola.cc/katiecouricmedia

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🚨French lawmakers approved a bill that will enshrine a woman’s right to an abortion in the French Constitution during a historic joint session of parliament in at the Palace of Versailles on Monday.

The bill was approved in an overwhelming 780-72 vote, and nearly the entire joint session stood in a long standing ovation.

Abortion rights are more widely accepted in France than in the United States and many other countries, with polls showing around 80% of French people back the fact that abortion is legal.

"We're sending a message to all women: your body belongs to you and no one can decide for you," Prime Minister Gabriel Attal told lawmakers ahead of the vote.

But the U.S. Supreme Court's 2022 decision to reverse the Roe v. Wade ruling that recognised women's constitutional right to abortion prompted activists to push France to become the first country to explicitly protect the right in its basic law.

"This right (to abortion) has retreated in the United States. And so nothing authorised us to think that France was exempt from this risk," said Laura Slimani, from the Fondation des Femmes rights group.

#france #lawmakers #abortion #news

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| Name | Username | Profile | Role |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Katie Couric Media | @katiecouricmedia | https://gondola.cc/katiecouricmedia | Media Company |
| Meredith Struewing | @m_struewing14 | https://gondola.cc/m_struewing14 | Graphic Designer |
| Meredith Struewing | @m_struewing14 | https://gondola.cc/m_struewing14 | Social Media Manager |
| Meredith Struewing | @m_struewing14 | https://gondola.cc/m_struewing14 | Copywriter |

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news, lawmakers, france, abortion

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