Simone Veil
Simone Veil · Philosophy & Social Sciences
French stateswoman and Holocaust survivor (Auschwitz); as Health Minister she carried the 1975 law legalizing abortion in France (loi Veil); first President of the elected European Parliament.
1927, Nice, France — 2017, Paris, France
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Simone Veil is recognized among Jewish contributors to Philosophy & Social Sciences — French stateswoman and Holocaust survivor (Auschwitz); as Health Minister she carried the 1975 law legalizing abortion in France (loi Veil); first President of the elected European Parliament.
Simone Veil was a French stateswoman and Auschwitz survivor who, as Minister of Health, carried the 1975 law legalizing abortion in France, known ever since as the 'loi Veil'. She became the first President of the directly elected European Parliament in 1979 and later entered the Constitutional Council and the Académie française. A Jewish deportee who lost much of her family in the Shoah, she is buried in the Panthéon.
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Source: Wikipedia; Fondation pour la Memoire de la Shoah
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French stateswoman and Holocaust survivor (Auschwitz); as Health Minister she carried the 1975 law legalizing abortion in France (loi Veil); first President of the elected European Parliament.
Source: Wikipedia; Fondation pour la Memoire de la Shoah
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