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  2. Abortion in France - Wikipedia

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    This amendment made France, as of passage, the only nation to guarantee the right to an abortion in their constitution. [12] The amendment describes abortion as a "guaranteed freedom"; [ 13 ] while Yugoslavia included similar measures in 1974 guaranteeing the right to "decide on having children", the French amendment is the first to explicitly ...

  3. Abortion in Europe - Wikipedia

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    In most European countries, abortion is generally permitted within a term limit below fetal viability (e.g. 12 weeks in Germany and 12 weeks and 6 days in Italy, or 14 weeks in France and Spain), although a wide range of exceptions permit abortion later in the pregnancy.

  4. Factbox-Abortion laws in Europe - AOL

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    Abortion rights, which have been legal since a landmark 1974 law, are more widely accepted in France than in the United States and many other countries, with polls showing around 80% of French ...

  5. Constitutional amendments under the French Fifth Republic

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    This amendment made France, as of passage, the only nation to guarantee the right to an abortion. [3] The amendment describes abortion as a "guaranteed freedom"; [4] while Yugoslavia included similar measures in 1974 guaranteeing the right to "decide on having children", the French amendment is the first to explicitly guarantee abortion.

  6. France becomes the only country to explicitly guarantee ...

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    Abortion enjoys wide support in France across most of the political spectrum, and has been legal since 1975. Many female legislators in the hall smiled broadly as they cheered.

  7. France becomes world’s first country to enshrine abortion ...

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    France first legalized abortion in 1975, after a campaign led by then-Health Minister Simone Veil, an Auschwitz survivor who became one of the country’s most famous feminist icons.

  8. France becomes the only country to explicitly guarantee ...

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    “It may not be an issue in France, where a majority of people support abortion,” said Mathilde Philip-Gay, a law professor and a specialist in French and American constitutional law. “But those same people may one day vote for a far-right government, and what happened in the U.S. can happen elsewhere in Europe, including in France.”

  9. List of countries by abortion rate - Wikipedia

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    International Abortion Rate Report. Country Rate per 1,000 women per year Number of abortions per year Year Age range ... France: 15.7 242,997 2022 [114]