IIt is 3 a.m. on November 27, 1974. The Minister of Health Simone Veil, dressed in a petroleum blue dress whose long sleeves hide her former deportee tattoo, defends, alone in the face of a National Assembly in which we has only thirteen women, the bill on voluntary termination of pregnancy that President Valéry Giscard d’Estaing and Prime Minister Jacques Chirac entrusted to him.
Barely coming down from the platform and sitting in the first row of the hemicycle, after a “Gaullist” deputy accused her of wanting babies to be “thrown into the crematorium”, she puts her head in her hands. “But no,” she said when she later discovered this photo of herself. I’m tired, but I’m not shedding tears! » No tears either when…
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