Wed Feb 23, 2022 – 9:50 pm EST
(LifeSiteNews) — At the close of a parliamentary shuttle of more than 18 months, the French National Assembly voted to make abortion on demand legal up to 14 weeks’ gestation, two weeks more than the previous time limit.
The legislation was introduced in August 2020 as a member’s bill by former presidential LREM Party representative Albane Gaillot of the Environmentalist Party, but it received practical support from the French government.
Almost simultaneously, a government decree perpetuated temporary dispositions by which women can get a chemical abortion at home after a tele-consultation with a doctor.
The Gaillot bill received 135 of 182 votes (a majority of the 577 National Assembly members were not present), with only 47 voting against.
Legislator Marine Le Pen, presidential candidate for the “Rassemblement national,” while expressing her opposition to the lengthening of the legal time limit, was among those absent from the chamber, as were most of the members of the small National Assembly group to which they belong. Le Pen went on record Tuesday saying she favors the “right” to abortion and has always done so.
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