French lawmakers are gathered at the Palace of Versailles. A headline reads: "France Is First Country To Make Abortion a Constitutional Right." Photo by Thomas Padilla/Associated Press.
Breaking News: France voted to explicitly enshrine access to abortion in its Constitution, making it the first country in the world to do so. The impulse for the change was the decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade in 2022.
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