Simone de Beauvoir, 1947

Simone de Beauvoir’s Only Play

Beauvoir’s Who Shall Die? explores moral responsibility and the unequal valuation of human life during wartime.
French lawyer and politician Simone Veil, the Minister of Health, addresses the French Senate in Paris, on the subject of abortion, 13th December 1974

The Manifesto of the 343

In a dramatic act of civil disobedience, more than three hundred French women publicly confessed to having had an illegal abortion.