The big screen at the Place du Trocadéro in Paris usually shows major sporting events, but on Monday afternoon it showed something completely different: A parliamentary vote.
The result of the vote was that France, as the first country in the world, constitutionally protects the right to free abortions.
"A new date in the historic fight for abortions," writes Le Monde's Solène Cordier in an analysis.
But the fight does not end with constitutional protection, she writes. Feminist groups continue to fight for better access to abortion and for protection to be spread across Europe.
But the abortion fight outside France is lagging, several commentators write. In France24, Lara Bullens has looked at the abortion issue on the other side of the English Channel, where more and more women are charged with abortion-related crimes, and DN's Erik de la Reguera sees how abortion rights in the United States have been torn apart since Roe v. Wade was overturned.
He believes that the French decision could cause ripples in the water, not least in Sweden where the issue is being investigated and all parties support constitutional protection for the right to abortion.
"Perhaps now all that is needed is a French push in the back."
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France first in the world with constitutionally protected abortion
France has become the first country in the world to vote to constitutionally protect the right to abortion, reports Le Monde. The French left has long wanted to constitutionally protect the right, but among other parties the measure has been considered unnecessary as support for the right to abortion is still very broad in the country.
But the recent setback for abortion rights in the United States, among others, has prompted French President Emmanuel Macron's government to act. However, the proposal is also seen as a way for Macron to make himself popular among left-wing voters ahead of the EU parliamentary elections later this year, writes Politico.
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Feminist veteran: The US did the world's women a favor
The fact that France's parliament on Monday is expected to enshrine the right to abortion in the constitution causes the country's feminist movement to rejoice.
Claudine Monteil, who heads the organization Femmes Monde, has been fighting for abortion rights since the early 1970s, when abortion was still illegal. She tells AFP that at the time she could never dream of a constitutional amendment, but that the US Supreme Court's decision to overturn the Wade v. Roe ruling shows how important constitutional protection is.
- The United States Supreme Court did all the women of the world a favor, they made us
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