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Abortion Debate in France

By: Mike Arvin

Until the 1970s, the French abortion law was a modification of the 1920-3 laws that had criminalized abortion, with provisions for prison terms and fines for those performing abortions as well as for women having abortions. Although the law had been modified in 1955 by allowing therapeutic abortions when pregnancy threatened the life of the woman, abortion was still considered a criminal act. With the passage of la loi Neuwirth, which legalized contraception in 1967, abortion law reform was thrust on to centre stage. The legalization of contraception raised the issue of what recourse women had if their contraceptives failed. The resolution to that puzzle was la loi Veil, which provided for legal abortion in the first ten weeks of pregnancy but did not erase the criminalization of abortion under other circumstances.

In 1971, 343 prominent women, including Catherine Deneuve, Simone de Beauvoir, Françoise Sagan, Gisele Halimi, and Yvette Roudy, earned the sobriquet of 'whores' (salopes) for issuing a manifesto, published in Le Nouvel Observateur (1971), affirming that they had undergone illegal abortions. With this act they called into question both the long-standing criminalization of abortion in French law, but also the claim that the interests of the French state should trump women's rights. The public debates that started prior to the legalization of abortion in the loi Veil continued long after, because the issues invoked were fundamental to political and social claims about the state, the Church, and the social order.

The Mouvement Français pour le Planning Familial (MFPF) and the Mouvement pour la Liberté de l'Avortement et pour la Contraception (MLAC) took the leading roles in promoting an activist agenda for abortion policy reform. The MFPF was initially an association devoted to providing contraceptive information and prescribing contraceptives. Conflict quickly arose between the medical and political goals of the organization: should it offer contraception and sexual information solely, or should it also promote abortion law reform? Members who believed that abortion reform was essential prevailed, and the MFPF became, by the early 1970s, the most organized voice for abortion reform.

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