"Its text recognises that enforcement of previous laws "criminalising the use of, practice of, access to, and information about abortion" constituted "an infringement of the protection of women's health, of sexual and reproductive autonomy", as well as "of women's rights". The pre-1975 laws led to "numerous deaths" and caused "physical and moral suffering", it adds."
"This "is an act of justice toward those thousands of lives shattered by unjust laws", said Aurore Berge, the minister-delegate for gender equality, during a speech in which she spoke of an abortion her mother had. "We have a responsibility to make amends, but above all we have a duty to sound the alarm," she added, highlighting attacks on women's rights "all around the world"."
Parliament's lower house unanimously adopted a bill that exonerates people punished under laws criminalising abortion before 1975. The text recognises that enforcement of those laws criminalising abortion and related information constituted infringements of women's health, sexual and reproductive autonomy, and rights, and states the pre-1975 rules caused numerous deaths and physical and moral suffering. Between 1870 and 1975 more than 11,660 people were convicted for performing or seeking abortions. The law creates a commission to help collect and share memories of women forced into secret abortions and of those who helped them, but it does not provide reparations.
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