There is no human right to kill human beings. But President Emmanuel Macron of France wants to make killing babies in abortions a right under the French Constitution.
During his speech for the 65th anniversary of the French Constitution, Macron called for abortion to be included “as soon as possible” in the country’s Magna Carta.
Macron doesn’t want to adopt an entirely new constitution for the European country but he wants the current constitution amended to include a right to end the lives of unborn children. France first legalized abortions in 1975 and allows babies to be killed up to 14 weeks.
However, making abortion a right could allow abortions up to birth for any reason since any limits would likely be interpreted by a court as contravening that so-called right.
“I want the force of this message to help us change our Constitution to enshrine the freedom of women to have recourse to the voluntary interruption of pregnancy,” Macron said at the Palace of Justice in Paris.
Last November, the National Assembly approved making abortion a right but the Senate modified the measure to make abortion a “freedom,” when is less produced under French law.
Earlier this year, during the annual March for Life in Paris, about 20,000 people urged lawmakers to reject the pro-abortion change.
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Nicolas Bauer, associate researcher at the European Centre for Law and Justice, said the proposed amendment is a radical move by pro-abortion leftists.
“By inserting it into the constitution, the left wants to make abortion sacred as if it were a value at the heart of the national ‘social contract,’” Bauer told the Catholic News Agency last year. “From being a crime, abortion has become a banal medical act, and the left now is seeking to make it a fundamental right, superior to every other right.”
French leaders have been pushing to create a right to abortion across Europe, too. Last winter, President Macron told the European Parliament that France will lobby to add abortion to the European Union Charter of Fundamental Rights. He claimed that protecting the so-called right to abort an unborn baby is a “strong value” that Europe should fight to uphold.
“We must update this charter to be more explicit on protection of the environment, [and] the recognition of the right to abortion,” Macron said at the time. “Let us open up this debate freely with our fellow citizens … to breathe new life into the pillar of law that forges this Europe of strong values.”
According to the French Ministry of Health, there were 222,000 abortions in 2020.
