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"This constitutional revision will make this tragedy irreversible for the weakest members of society," says Marie-Lys Pellissier, spokesperson for the "March for Life", at an anti-abortion rights demonstration of about fifty activists near Port-Royal as the Senate prepared to vote on enshrining abortion in the Constitution. IMAGES
French President Emmanuel Macron talks to people who attended the ceremony to enshrine abortion in the French Constitution, at the end of the event at Paris' Place Vendôme. IMAGES (COMPLETES VIDI34KW4QY_EN + VIDI34KX97B_EN + VIDI34KZ6UV_EN)
French MPs and Senators meeting in the Congress of Versailles have overwhelmingly voted to enshrine the right to abortion in the Constitution, announced the Speaker of the House, Yael Braun-Pivet, making France the first country in the world to do so explicitly. IMAGES
Hundreds of people gather at Paris' Trocadero as French lawmakers are expected to anchor the right to abortion in the country's constitution, a world first that has garnered overwhelming public support. IMAGES
"Europe has seen frontal attacks on the right to abortion," says Daniele Gaudry, a gynaecologist and family planning activist, at a pro-abortion demonstration attended by several dozen activists on the Place de la Sorbonne in Paris, just as the Senate was preparing to vote on enshrining abortion in the Constitution. IMAGES
Scrutineers begin to count ballots at a polling station in the town of Indre, Loire-Atlantique, for the second round of France's legislative elections. IMAGES