“The seal of the Republic seals a long fight for freedom” | EUROtoday

Published on : 08/03/2024 – 12:04

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After the vote of Congress, the sealing ceremony. On Friday March 8, Head of State Emmanuel Macron chaired the ceremony to seal the French Constitution, through which the liberty to resort to voluntary termination of being pregnant (abortion) is now talked about.

During a public ceremony at Place Vendôme in Paris, it was the Minister of Justice Eric Dupond-Moretti who affixed the seal of the Republic to the legislation offering for “guaranteed freedom” of entry to voluntary termination of being pregnant within the Constitution. The Keeper of the Seals dealt with the 1810 press expressly taken out of his workplace, in nice silence, earlier than lengthy applause broke out from the friends and the a number of hundred individuals who had come to attend this ceremony of sealing the Constitution.

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In a speech, Emmanuel Macron confirmed his need to incorporate the “freedom to resort to” abortion “in the charter of fundamental rights of the European Union”, the place in keeping with him “nothing is taken without any consideration and all the pieces is to defend. “Beyond Europe, we will fight for this right to become universal and effective,” added the pinnacle of state, for whom Friday’s ceremony “seals a long fight for freedom.”

Emmanuel Macron introduced that he would additionally flower the tombs of “great figures” of French feminism, together with Françoise Giroud, Gisèle Halimi, Joséphine Baker, Louise Michel, Simone de Beauvoir and Simone Veil.

With AFP