France has inscribed the guaranteed right to abortion in its constitution, a powerful message of support for women’s rights on International Women’s Day
A man passes a large protest painting against hate crime against women, reading"no more femicide" at a house wall in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, on the International Women's Day, Friday, March 8, 2024. Marches, demonstrations and conferences are being held the world over, from Asia to Latin America and elsewhere to mark International Women’s Day.
When the French justice minister used a 19th-century printing press to seal the amendment in France’s Constitution, cheers filled the plaza. It ensures “the freedom of women to have recourse to an abortion, which is guaranteed.” Macron’s critics questioned why he pursued the measure in a country with no obvious threat to abortion rights but where women face a multitude of other problems.
Justice Minister Eric Dupond-Moretti used a 100-kilogram press from 1810 to imprint the amendment in France’s 1958 Constitution. “Unfortunately, we still see sky-high pay differences, professions dominated by one sex, a gender-segregated labor market, harassment cases that primarily affect women and a wide range of other equality problems,” Morten Skov Christensen said.In Ireland, voters are deciding whether to change the constitution to remove passages referring to women’s domestic duties and broadening the definition of the family.
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