The right has been guaranteed to French women through Article 34 of the French constitution, which says, “the law determines the conditions in which a woman has the guaranteed freedom to have recourse to an abortion”. The “guaranteed freedom” to abort was favourably voted in on 4 March by lawmakers of both houses of parliament — the National Assembly and the Senate — in an overwhelming majority of 780 votes against 72. New Delhi: France has become the first country in the world to enshrine abortion rights in its constitution after parliamentarians voted to amend the document enacted in 1958....