No matter what political side you are on, Christiane Taubira appears as a strong woman. It must be said that the trials of life have hardened the former Minister of Justice. Thus, on January 14, France 5 broadcast in prime time a documentary on abortion entitled Just listen to women. On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Veil law, promulgated on January 17, 1975, the National Audiovisual Institute (INA) launched, on its website, a collection of unpublished testimonies around the ordinary experience of abortion before its legalization in France.
It turns out that the former MP did not only experience joy during her adolescence in Cayenne, the town where she was born. So, in this report, she returned to the abominable, barely believable atrocities. The former Minister of Justice was 19 years old when she becomes pregnant without wanting to. Her mother is already no longer here (she died when she was 16, editor's note). “It happened to me just after the baccalaureate” she says. Without any filter, the mother of two opens up in every detail.
“When it happens to me, I realize it, because I don't have my period. SO I talk to my boyfriend about it. I don't remember our conversation, but we decide that it is not possible to keep this child” reveals the former regional advisor of Guyana. It was then that this young man decides to “help” him advising him to go see a “angel maker“. So, he tells him thatil “knows someone who can rid me of… this thing, this embryo“.
Christiane Taubira: this day so atrocious that her brain preferred to put it aside
It's the 1970s and Christiane Taubira and her boyfriend decide not to keep this baby. It is then that the politician must have an abortion…illegally. No choice. “On the appointed day I go to this lady's house. I have no memory of what she did to me. I remember his closed face, I remember his silence. I remember a kind of strength, I remember a darkness, but I don't even remember any physical suffering” she declares on France 5 in this new documentary.
On the other hand, this operation will not be without consequences on his health. Having left for Martinique to study, Christiane Taubira remembers very well having done “a carabiner infectionan outbreak of fever. For several days, we were convinced that I would not survive“. Hospitalized, the doctor then asked her who was at the origin of this abortion. “I hear words like charcuterie, charcuterie, I don't know. I understand that it is violent, but not for a thousandth of a second does the idea of betraying the lady occur to me“. A violent but necessary testimony when we know that this type of practice existed in France just a few years ago.
Every year, 240,000 women have abortions. A right enshrined in the Constitution that since 4 mars 2023.
