French women bid to cement abortion rights after US Supreme Court ruling

Simone Veil, then the French health minister, speaks about abortion law at the National in December 1974 (Eustache Cardenas/AP)

The right to abortion in France hardly seems under threat – it has been inscribed in law for 47 years and enjoys broad support across the political spectrum.

But more and more French women are now asking: Could what happened in the US happen here one day?