The French woke up and chose violence.
On Monday, France became the world’s only country to explicitly enshrine a right to abortion into its constitution. The French parliament overwhelmingly approved it, 780 to 72—a greater than 10-to-1 spread.
Fittingly, they held their vote in the Palace of Versailles, one of the epicenters of French Revolution violence. The first-ever public “sealing ceremony,” a tradition reserved for only the most significant laws, was scheduled to be held on Friday—ironically on International Women’s Day.
Historically, you could see this coming.
After the U.S. Supreme Court in June 2022 returned the issue of abortion to the American people in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, French President Emmanuel Macron opportunistically expressed his “solidarity” with American women and called abortion a “fundamental…
