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korydweninterim:

Today, maybe the most known and important figure of french women’s rights with Simone de Beauvoir has died.

Simone Veil was a survivor of Auschwitz from where only her and her two sisters came back. She later lost those sisters in terrible tragedies.

Simone Veil gave us legal abortion. A law that will forever bear her name. She gave us legal abortion despite being called a Nazi by men in the Assemblée. Being accused of wanting to “genocide” children. Simone Veil, the jewish woman, survivor of Auschwitz, was called a Nazi because she was fighting for women to stop dying. To own their own bodies. 

Simone Veil also has been the very first woman to presidate the European Parliement.

I never met her, I never had this honor. My cousin did because she came to his school for a special occasion and he told me that it’s when he saw how her table was crowded by as much women as possible that he realized how important she was to us. As a man, he knew her path but it never affected him so he didn’t realize it before.

The camp and tragedies didn’t break her and yet, men did. They made her cry by their insults, their violence, their deep desire to break this woman who was standing up against them. She still stood tall. She kept going. She didn’t give up. 

Simone Veil was the first politician I remembered the name of, the first one I felt was actually important. She’s the first one I cry for and I mourn.

For the anti-choicers who compare abortion to the Holocaust.

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