Will the French Constitution Enshrine the Right to Abortion?

Stéphanie Hennette-Vauchez is Professor of Public Law at the Université Paris Ouest Nanterre and a fellow of the Institut Universitaire de France. She is an internationally renowned expert on human rights, comparative public law, bioethics, reproductive rights, national security, religious freedom, and feminism. In recent years, she has held visiting fellowships at NYU, Princeton, Fordham, and other American universities, as well as at the European University Institute in Florence, LUISS-Guido Carli in Rome, and several other institutions of research and higher education around the world. Her most recent book is L'Ecole et la République (The School and the Republic) (2023). She is a frequent commentator in the French media on constitutional issues, and has provided expert testimony and advice on the proposals to amend the French constitution to enshrine abortion rights.

Read Stéphanie's article, Why and how to constituitonalize the right to abortion? (in French)

Read The New York Times' coverage of the proposal to constitutionalize abortion in France.