France has enshrined the right to abortion in its constitution, in a ceremony on International Women’s Day. Abortion has been legal in France since 1975, but while several other countries ...

Abortion rights are more widely accepted in France than in the United States and many other countries, with polls showing around 80 per cent of French people back the fact that abortion is legal.

French lawmakers on Monday voted to amend Article 34 of their constitution to state that “a woman has the guaranteed freedom to have recourse to an abortion,” strengthening a 1975 law that ...