Aurore Bergé, the Minister responsible for Equality between Women and Men, said on Friday January 17, 2025 that she was in favor of South Radio to the publication of a directory of professionals practicing voluntary termination of pregnancy (IVG).
"It is already (in) the law. We simply need to guarantee its application, because a woman who wants an abortion must be able to know how to do it as close to her as possible," she said, fifty years after the promulgation of the law decriminalizing abortion. If this law is not applied today, it is because certain health professionals "are threatened and harassed because they practice" abortions, explained the minister.
"The obstruction of abortion also involves anti-choice, anti-rights activists “
"The obstruction of abortion also involves anti-choice, anti-rights activists who continue to tag places that practice abortion, to threaten associations. Unfortunately, that still happens," she regretted. The minister also cited obstacles "techniques" which further complicate a complete mapping of these doctors or midwives.
"Will it be a map? A list? In any case, the idea is to (…) provide access to information," said Ms. Bergé, promising the imminent application of this provision contained in the law. She also said she supported the socialist senator Laurence Rossignol, who is calling, with a collective, for the rehabilitation of women convicted of having abortions before the famous law brought by Simone Veil.
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"It is a symbolic step which is extremely important"
"It is a symbolic step that is extremely important. When we go back more than 50 years, we go back to suffering that was terrible, (…) it was clandestinity, it was secrecy, it was shame, it was exposing oneself to death, it was exposing oneself to prison," recalled Aurore Bergé.
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