Last week’s vote to enshrine abortion rights in the constitution is a very welcome step from French senators (France to make abortion a constitutional right after senate vote, 28 February). Efforts to legally protect abortion access are extremely valuable when abortion rights are under threat in many parts of Europe – and we’ve seen in Poland how quickly abortion access can be overturned by undemocratic “tribunal” rulings.
While your article rightly points out that the French parliament voted to extend France’s legal limit for ending a pregnancy from 12 to 14 weeks in 2022, we would like add that in practice this 14-week limit means that many people are still unable to get an abortion in France. Abortion Support Network works to remove some of the barriers to getting an abortion by paying the costs of travelling for care in a clinic overseas, and while most of the people we help are in Poland and the Republic of Ireland, our third largest country demographic is people in France.
Dani Anderson
Abortion Support Network (England)
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