There is forty years; Simone Veil defended at the assembled her law project against the voluntary interruption of pregnancy.
We return in to a terrible fight to go the adoption of the law.
Simone Veil left her mark on the women’s cause.
The twenty-six November in 1974, she was minister of health.
She presents a law in front of the deputy against the pregnancy.
First and foremost, the fight begin the fifth April 1971, a manifestation of women’s demand the pregnancy right.
It is necessary to know that at this time the pregnancy was illegal.
In this manifestation there are Simone de Beauvoir and Catherine Deneuve.
The manifestation accelerate the fight for rights of the women, in the street but also in front of the courts
Afterwards, there was the trial of Bobigny.
Marie-Claire who had aborted after a rape, was sued, she acquitted.
Then, the 13 December 1973.
The assembled examined the bill.
But the draft bill was denied.
In 1974, Simone Veil entered in the government.
She was minister of health nominate by Jacques Chirac.
It is then that she forms a bill against the pregnancy.
Some month later Simone Veil tries again to deposit again the bill.
But her speech was very taut and very long.
She was during 25 hours where sixty-four speakers take the word.
The speech was the most virulent by the right wing whereas the left approve of the bill.
She has adopted in 1974, the 29 November by the assembled.
Then it’s a turn to the senate to vote the law she adopted.
The law has promulgated and she is always on vigour
This is the fight of simone veil