French constitutional abortion
The President of France, Emmanuel Macron, declared on International Women's Day that the French country will present a new resolution so that the right to abortion is enshrined in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union.
A historic vote recently took place in the French Parliament and, in addition, by an overwhelming and overwhelming majority, abortion was approved as a constitutional right: of the 925 deputies and senators with the right to vote, 780 supported the amendment that grants women freedom guaranteed to decide to abort and also do so demanding that public hospitals treat them without question.
Without questioning the reason, without even speculating about congenital malformations... it is already a question of will that perhaps eclipses one's own conscience. The will above the conscience or perhaps, it is the whim of a morning or the dispute of a couple or family and ends up becoming an act of revenge.
We live in an era in which the most individual desires are prevailing over the desires of the community; in which duty is also subjugated by will; We are going through dazzling times, the path is increasingly darker and it is the minorities that are guiding the path of the majorities.
Never before have minorities had so much political weight and, while the majorities lock themselves in their particular ostracism, legislation is being reformed to benefit those least.
In France, Macron knows that he has a very tough fight with the far-right led by Marine Le Pen, who feels closer every day to governing from the Elysée.
The current constitutional movement in such a sensitive and always controversial issue that confronts society with its human, religious, ideological and political values.
However, Macron understands that feminism is a voting machine. The 21st century is a century with a female face, that empowerment is here to stay in a world in which the majority of the population is women.
That France makes this move has several connotations: first let us remember that at the time Yugoslavia led by Tito also raised the right to abortion in its Constitution in 1974. After the disintegration of the communist country, said right was buried.
For the French country to do so in 2024 is to set a precedent to be emulated by other countries, which see France as a model to imitate, especially in its progressive ideas.
There are many left-wing and ultra-left politicians who have given a nod to their intention to carry out a vote in Spain so that the Iberian country also enshrines the right to abortion in its Constitution. Of course, the Catholic Church has already shouted to the heavens.
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Among the ten most Catholic countries in the world are: Brazil, Mexico, the Philippines, the United States, Italy, France, Colombia, Spain, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Argentina.
Pro-life groups in France, many linked to the Catholic Church, have already announced protests against the constitutional amendment and are also announcing movements in defense of life in other countries because they are coordinating with other Pro-life groups in the Netherlands, Germany and Belgium, among others. . They want to avoid the contagion effect.
It is really too early to say how much impact what has been done in France will have, not only in its neighbor Spain, but in the EU itself or even beyond the Atlantic. The truth is that it happens at a time of enormous global discredit of the Catholic Church dotted with thousands of cases of pedophilia and sexual abuse.
There is also a profound generational change: Baby Boomers are dying; Generation So it will be fundamentally millennial women and the other generations that will come after them, who will be able to benefit from this constitutional right in a country, and on a continent, where having children (especially in Catholic countries) is a thing of the past. .
Now, I have never had an abortion and I don't know if I would have done so under certain circumstances such as rape or a congenital malformation; Yes, I believe that only women can have the right to decide about our motherhood, because we are the ones who suffer the consequences, not only in our body, but in the intrinsic responsibility derived from having a son or daughter who will have to be provided for. well-being for their growth and development. What I am against is that abortion can become a whim or an act of revenge and cruelty. That having an abortion is like deciding to remove a tooth.