Aurore Bergé, the Minister responsible for Equality between women and men, said she was in favor on Friday on Sud Radio of the publication of a directory of professionals practicing voluntary termination of pregnancy (IVG).
“It is already (in) the law. We simply have to guarantee its application, because a woman who wants to have an abortion must be able to know how to do it as close to her as possible,” he said. she declared, 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 is also anti-choice, anti-rights activists who continue to tag places that practice abortion, to threaten associations. Unfortunately, there is still that,” he said. -she regretted.
The minister also cited “technical” obstacles 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,” declared Ms. Bergé, promising the upcoming application of this provision contained in the law.
-She also said she supports socialist senator Laurence Rossignol, who calls, with a collective, for the rehabilitation of women convicted of having aborted before the famous law passed by Simone Veil.
“It is a symbolic step which is extremely important. When we go back more than 50 years, we plunge back into suffering which 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.
published on January 17 at 10:14 a.m., AFP
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