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France will enshrine in its constitution a woman’s right to seek an abortion, a move that came in response to the curbing of access to the procedure in the US.

At a joint session of parliament on Monday, French lawmakers voted overwhelmingly in favor of the amendment, which will make the nation the first in the world to explicitly say in its basic law that women are free to choose to terminate a pregnancy.

The clause to be added to article 34 of the constitution provides a “guaranteed freedom to women to have recourse to abortion” under conditions stipulated by the law.

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