Gisele Halimi
93-year-old – born of a modest family, Gisèle Halimi was born in La Goulette in Tunisia. Lawyer engaged, it is particular to know when the trial is emblematic of Bobigny, in 1972, where she obtained the release of a minor on trial for having had an abortion after having been raped, thus paving the way for the decriminalization of abortion, in early 1975 with the Veil law. Founder in 1971, with Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, the association for the right to abortion to Choose the cause of women, in the same year, she was a signatory of the famous manifesto of the 343 women called p…
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