France has long been a world leader in advocating women's reproductive rights, especially regarding abortion. Unlike many Western countries where this issue remains controversial, France has ...

Public opinion in France is strongly in favor of abortion rights, as shown by several surveys. According to a 2022 poll by ...

With the support of Macron, there was widespread political consensus to make abortion rights in France much more difficult to tamper with. Mathilde Panot, an MP from the hard-left party France ...

OP-ED. Legal experts Daniel Borrillo and Thomas Perroud explain how, in many US states, abortion rights legislation is more ...

France legalized abortion in 1974 in a law championed by health minister and women's rights icon Simone Veil. At the time, there were large protests against the measure and Veil was personally ...

PARIS — French lawmakers on Monday overwhelmingly approved a bill to enshrine abortion rights in France's constitution, making it the only country to explicitly guarantee a woman’s right to ...

Here is an overview of abortion laws across Europe, where the general trend has been towards liberalisation but some ...

It’s April... but we still need to talk about women’s rights! March, traditionally known as Women’s Month, has come and gone, but the advocacy work doesn’t stop.

With 373 votes to 163, MEPs in Brussels voted a symbolic resolution to put access to abortion in the EU's Charter of ...

On International Women’s Day 2024, France became the first country in the world to enshrine abortion into their constitution.

The issue was back in focus this month after France inscribed the right to abortion ... noted that women felt abortion rights "belonged to us and could not be brought into question.” ...

Abortion rights, which have been legal since a landmark 1974 law, are more widely accepted in France than in the United ...