France recently became the first country to add the right to an abortion to its constitution.
Here's the story from CNN...
France becomes world’s first country to enshrine abortion rights in constitution
What do you think of this?
It's interesting to see the phrase "what can be done can be undone" being used. I'm sure irony is not the intention.
The point of the anti-abortion argument is that what can be done - killing a baby in utero - can't be undone. Once that unique human life has been executed before it has a chance to grow up and cure cancer you can't "unabort" it.
Recently my wife and I had to make the decision whether to have the remaining embryos from the IVF cycle that gave us the son we adore destroyed or continue storing them knowing at 50 she can't carry another baby to term.
The decision is the hardest thing we've ever had to make - and these have never been implanted to try to let them develop. My heart breaks thinking about it. My son could have had a sibling. Except I'm 52 in a couple of weeks and missing a leg.
I'd rather see the right to life enshrined in a constitution and the sense to make a choice about having a child being made before the child is made.
So go ahead and block me. I'm sure people will. It's unpopular to make people think about the less popular possibilities of sex after the orgasm
Not surprised. France is and has been the most liberal nation in history. Liberalism is everywhere, it is the breakdown and a failure of society. It preys on the weak, and the meek in a society.
Most world Constitutions are a piece of paper that changes literally every 40-50 years. The US Constitution is the only true constitution because, it literally has a bill of rights not for those in power, but actually for the "people", and has stood for nearly 250 years.
Abortion is not a right, it is a cop out, an excuse. The further we get from basic human rights, given to us by God, the further down a dark path we go. A path to the end.
"We the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect UNION, establish JUSTICE, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the COMMON defense, promote the general Welfare, and Secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America"
They were powerful words in 1789, and the still are today...
I think it is great, but what can be done can be undone.
Sadly, we have to go this far to ensure a basic human right.
And please no lessons from "good thinking" religious persons. Up to the 1970s and even the beginning 1980s, in Ireland, single mothers were going to get help from the church to give birth and give up their child for adoption. The newborns were killed there just after they were born with no father.
I support the right to abortion but I don't support constitutions. To me they allow a small group of people to impose their views on millions for centuries to come and that doesn't sit well with me.
France has long been seen as a tolerant country so I wonder what's caused them to suddenly feel the need to lock abortion into a Constitution.
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u I am not surprised. Eventually, France will have a “market correction” and will swing back to the right.
May you all rot in hell for being none human sick vile snakes who devour humans
I am pyscho now at 40 no kids of my own probably no kids in the future
I have suffered 3 counts of abortion
Had the mistresses not aborted I would have never lost my job , my money my house my everything bcoz I would most definitely know I have mouths to feed ,
Now all that is down the drain bcoz of a technological advancement called abortion , I hope all those who have kids on here and support such absurd nonsense die of a heart attack induced by their own kids whom may hopefully one day be on drugs or street prostitutes
Sick vile snakes
Whatever. I'm not a religious nut so it doesn't bother me. I'm in favor of women's rights and free choice. I have no problem with abortion as long as there are limitations.
It's ironic that many of the people who wail about fetuses cheer when innocent men, women and children are slaughtered.
When abortion isn't legal it isn't safe.
I am very much for the right to have abortion widely available for medical emergencies and rape. Just not as a use of frequent birth control. Proud of France.
Nearly the same question that i've asked and my answer is in my details over there...
A woman's right to have an abortion in France is now constitutional, what's your opinion?
Making abortion legal or allowing it for anything outside of medical issues is a major issue abortion should only be used if the life of the mother is endangered by the pregnancy. By making it legal with no restriction it encourages further degeneration of sex, relationships, etc. If a woman is legally allowed to abort then a man should legally be allowed to press charges for first degree murder for the murder of his child if he feels it was murder
I support it, I have a feeling they wanted in the constitution due to the potential influx of non French people that may in say 10 years result in some laws changing. It’s a good move.
they didn't specify which week. french law still forbids abortion "during second trimester" the constitution refers to first trimester!
Constitution or laws is mostly the same things here, it's just to make himself look good (because in France majority of people are in favor of abortion).
Can Poland be the next country to do it? Please?
all they have to do is adjust the terminology from "fetus" to politician, then they can go back to using the guillotine.
it's not my issue... sorry to all the little kiddos in france that will never be.
Wasn't it already legal? I don't understand. Seems a bit redundant/ unnecessary.. We don't live in the Middle Ages
Women can have abortion but it should be regulated, we can't have abortion free for all but that is the way it is gonna go here in the UK
Wow that's amazing! I hope a lot of other countries follow :)
I think france is very smart and I also think other countries will follow suit
m I think its a big circus with a clown president trying to earn some points for election
he be like lets forget all the major issues n focus on silly shit
u It's a very sad day for France. I hope and pray that they will reverse this decision in the future.
Don't care to be honest with you. I don't live there and my opinion has no weight.
Who cares
We are almost 9 billion now we really need to cut the population by 99.99 percent
France enshrines abortion rights but outlaws paternity testing. Idiocy.
