France: “Right to abortion to be included in the Constitution”, Le Pen: “No need, we are not in the US”

The proposal of the French presidential majority to insert the right to abortion in the Constitution, in response to the decision of the American Supreme Court to overturn the Roe vs Wade ruling by canceling the constitutional guarantees regarding the voluntary termination of pregnancy, has made the leader of the Rassemblement react. national Marine Le Pen, who in the local media spoke of “the exploitation of a fact completely external to the country and without any consequence on French law”. In short, the issue that is fueling endless controversies and protests in the United States (and beyond) also risks inflaming the political agenda of the transalpine country.
And in the face of the proposal, in fact, to include in the Constitution what the French define “an acquired right”, the reaction of the right arrives. “We are not in an American state. Consequently, we have nothing to fear for any decision by the US Supreme Court. Voluntary termination of pregnancy is not contested by anyone in France “, added Le Pen, underlining, however, that he will leave the deputies of his group free to vote in case the bill actually arrives in the National Assembly, but not specifying which will be the line of his movement in this regard. Even the interim president of the party, Jordan Bardella, remarked that “no serious political force is questioning the law on the right to abortion”.
However, the hot topic at Rn. In 2012, Le Pen defended the absence of reimbursement of medical expenses for the IGV in order to dissuade from alleged “comfort abortions”. Only last year, however, the RN MEPs led by Bardella voted against a resolution urging the states of the Union to “guarantee universal access to a safe and legal abortion”.