I'm not insane, I'm not… not insane!
I’m almost surprised it passed this overwhelmingly in the Senate, but I won’t complain. We don’t get many progressive victories these days.
Not sure how significant the change in the text from "right to abortion" to "freedom of abortion" is, though?
Flippé de participer à ce grand souper, je veux juste m'occuper de taper mon propre tempo.
I understand the change is that abortion was only legal, and now that it's a right garanteed in the constitution, it would be quite difficult to make it illegal.
I'm not insane, I'm not… not insane!
Oh no, I meant the change in semantics from the first draft, that the BBC article mentions.
Last month it voted again to back the "freedom" to have an abortion after Mr Macron's government called for Article 34 of the constitution to be amended to cite "the freedom of women to have recourse to an abortion, which is guaranteed".
This new wording on "guaranteed freedom" was approved by the Senate on Wednesday.
I expect the change was to clarify it as meaning “the government cannot ban this” rather than “the government is obligated to make sure this is provided”.
Khatun of the Azim Steppe
Bit late to the party, but...
That doesn’t make sense to me re: New Zealand, at least. They’ve got very strong environmental and agricultural regulation (a year or so back they made free-range farming mandatory for egg farmers), and at least as high as wages as France would have. Prior to the recent elections they were up there with the Scandanavian countries as one of the most progressive developed nations.
Few things there.
- One of the issues is the carbon cost of importing your meat from literally the other side of the globe (and I mean literally, if you look where the exact opposite of Paris on Earth is, it's in the Pacific roughly 1000km East of Dunedin)
- It's mostly lamb meat that comes from NZ as far as produces go
- I think New Zealand has an extremely favorable trade agreement with France when it comes to lamb in particular since the Eighties. It may be related to the Rainbow Warrior case, where the French Secret Service blew a Greenpeace ship up in Auckland, killing one man, and got caught, causing a major international crisis - basically, that trade agreement may be one of the ways the French government tried to apologize and soothe things over with the Kiwis, because they knew they had royally screwed up.
Cross-posting this from the Eastern European Politics Thread: Emmanuel Macron Announces Plans for Permanent Defense Mission in Moldova
Summary:
1. This defense mission follows a signing of a cooperation agreement between France and Moldova's respective defense ministers.
2. This defense mission is to strengthen Moldova's military capabilities with French assistance.
Good, we will no longer be hearing the lame objections of conservative politicians "this is not necessary, there are more serious concerns".