https://internationalviewpoint.org/ International Viewpoint, the monthly English-language magazine of the Fourth International, is a window to radical alternatives world-wide, carrying reports, analysis and debates from all corners of the globe. Correspondents in over 50 countries report on popular struggles, and the debates that are shaping the left of tomorrow. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://internationalviewpoint.org/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH25/siteon0-da713.png?1745245334 https://internationalviewpoint.org/ 25 144 https://internationalviewpoint.org/France-50-years-of-the-Veil-law-abortion-a-right-never-won https://internationalviewpoint.org/France-50-years-of-the-Veil-law-abortion-a-right-never-won 2025-01-24T07:28:00Z text/html en Manon Boltansky , Ju Chiro France Women Abortion and reproductive rights <p>On 17 January 1975, the Veil law was promulgated in France: voluntary termination of pregnancy (abortion) could now be carried out legally and in a safe environment. The right to contraception and abortion was a victory won by the struggles of the feminist movement in the 1970s, in France as in many other countries.</p> - <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/-IVP600-January-2025-" rel="directory">IVP600 - January 2025</a> / <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-France-+" rel="tag">France</a>, <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-Women-+" rel="tag">Women</a>, <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-Abortion-and-reproductive-rights-+" rel="tag">Abortion and reproductive rights</a>