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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
Demonstrators march in Paris on World Abortion Rights Day, three months after the United States Supreme Court overturned a long-standing right to such medical care. 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)
"My body, my choice", "IVG Constitution", "My body, my choice"... These messages were projected onto the Eiffel Tower in Paris with a "special sparkle" as Parliament voted in Congress to enshrine abortion in the Constitution. IMAGES
"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