The French National Assembly approved this Tuesday by a large majority that the country’s Constitution includes the “guaranteed freedom” of women to aborta modification promoted by the Government of Emmanuel Macron that must still be voted on in the Senate, with a conservative majority, which could still overturn the measure.

The constitutional change, in any case, if it becomes a reality would make the French Magna Carta the the only one in force throughout the world that explicitly guarantees access to voluntary termination of pregnancy. For now, it has gone ahead in the Lower House with 493 votes in favor, 30 against and 23 abstentions.

The issue will now pass into the hands of the Upper House, with a conservative majority, and which seems reluctant to give approval definitive to the constitutionalization of abortion. In fact, the Executive had already replaced the term “right to abortion” with “guaranteed freedom” to abort.

He president of the senate, Gérard Larcher, has already expressed his reservations, pointing out that “abortion is not threatened” in France and that, if it were, he himself would “fight for it to be maintained.” “I think that The Constitution is not a catalog of rights social”, he stated.

Already in mid-October, the French Upper House rejected the first of the three projects of law that sought to reinforce the right to abortion and contraception in the French Constitution.