The French President, Emmanuel Macron, announced this Sunday that his Government will take the first step of the planned procedure to inscribe the right to abortion in the French Constitution, so that it will be "irreversible" starting next year. Macron indicated that next week a draft project for this purpose will be presented to the Council of State, an organization whose functions include being the main legal advisor to the Executive Branch. Constitutional revisions in France require a referendum or the approval of at least three-fifths of the members of both houses of Parliament: the National Assembly and the Senate. In both cases, any initiative by the Executive to include the right to abortion in the Constitution must first have the approval of the Council of State, which is made up of 300 officials. Its sessions are chaired by the prime minister. "In 2024, women's freedom to abort will be irreversible," Macron wrote on the social network X when making the announcement. The French president had promised this registration on March 8, International Women's Day, in response to concerns raised by the repeal of the federal right to abortion in the United States last year. Abortion was decriminalized in France in 1975. According to a November 2022 poll, 86% of French people are in favor of including the right to abortion in the Constitution. According to official figures, 234,000 abortions were performed in France last year, the French news agency AFP reported.