著者

柿本 佳美 柿本 佳美

出版者

奈良女子大学アジア・ジェンダー文化学研究センター

雑誌

アジア・ジェンダー文化学研究 = Gender and culture in Asia (ISSN:24329525)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.1, pp.51-60, 2017

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Abortion as women's freedom of body and social justice This paper aims to clarify that the French procedure of legalization of abortion and its modification in recent years has been done in the direction of human rights approach, and that in this view, abortion is situated as the one of the alternative in the procreation. In 2016 January, French Government decided the modification of Veil law, that is, the suppression of the period of reflection in one week before final decision, authorization to mid-wives on deliberation of the mifepristone, and the direct payment of the public recompense of abortion to the medical services. We can see the difficult situation of the isolated women who had faced to unwanted pregnancy from the reason of the necessity of the modification. In France, women's movement of legalization of abortion in 1960-1970s is the important turning point of women's rights. Beauvoir analyzed why women cannot live as their own way: procreation and labor make women in the state of exclusion from the family of their parents and that of their husbands. She indicated the lack of the point of view that women is human being as like as man and the women's situation not to commit the world lacking the way to invent their own futures. She stated that in order to make women as human being, we must know the procedure of social elimination of women and take back their autonomy. Analyzing the modification of Veil law teaches us that French abortion has been sustained by the principle of protection of women's rights as the person and that it informs us the existence of socio-economic difficulties of women.