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> France has moved a step closer to becoming the first country in the world to enshrine abortion as a constitutional right, after lawmakers approved a resolution in the lower house to guarantee access to "The right to voluntarily end a pregnancy".

> Several parties in France, from the left to centrists, began pushing for abortion rights to be written into the constitution after the US supreme court's decision in June to overturn the landmark Roe v Wade ruling, which recognised a woman's constitutional right to an abortion and legalised it nationwide.

> The far-right leader Marine Le Pen, whose National Rally is the biggest single opposition party in parliament, this week called the move "Totally misplaced", arguing that abortion rights were not under threat in France.

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