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France formally established a constitutional right to abortion at a ceremony on Friday, International Women’s Day. “The law shall determine the conditions under which the freedom guaranteed to a woman to have recourse to a voluntary interruption of pregnancy is exercised,” the constitutional amendment states. It was approved by the senate on Monday. France now intends to “take this fight to the European level”, said government spokeswoman Prisca Thevenot on Wednesday. “In 2022, the president of the republic announced his intention to include the right to abortion in the Charter of Fundamental …

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