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The French Feminist movement after 68 and the legalization of abortion

  • Korean Review of French History
  • Abbr : KRFH
  • 2018, (39), pp.89~121
  • DOI : 10.51786/RCHF.2018.08.39.89
  • Publisher : KOREAN SOCIETY FOR FRENCH HISTORY
  • Research Area : Humanities > History
  • Received : July 31, 2018
  • Accepted : August 13, 2018
  • Published : August 31, 2018

Min, You-ki 1

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ABSTRACT

This article intends for an analysis of the effect of French feminism after May 68 over legalization of abortion through comprehensive comparison of the standpoints of political parties, doctors, and feminists. The demands for legalization of abortion propagated after 1968 to promote the human rights of women. The manifesto of the 343 women in 1971 and the Bobigny abortion trial in 1972 had incapacitated the law of 1920 that stipulated the punishment for abortion. Doctors were divided into those of the conservative association who dissented from the abortion and those who had progressive opinions assented to the abortion; the number of progressive doctors gradually grown further. The liberal central rightists who won the presidential election in 1974 accommodated the social pressure originated from the bottom into legal system through the legislation of ‘Veil Law’ that legalized the abortion by women.

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