Women right champion Veil officially became an academic by Zivka Deleva

The eminent 82-year old French politician, women rights defender, former minister for health, and a lot more, Simone Veil officially became member of the French Academy. Though she’s been proclaimed one since November 2008, yesterday the membership was consigned on a ceremony. On her entry of the most prestigious intellectual club, came to honor her two former French presidents, Jacques Chirac and Valery Giscard d'Estaing and the current one, Nicolas Sarkozy. At the same time as the ceremony took place, hundreds of people gathered for protest against her acceptance in the Academy, calling her a murderer, because she was the one that legalized the abortion law in 1974! . Who’s to believe that in the 21-st century still live such people like those outside the Academy! Poor them! Veil has been interned in Nazi concentration camps in Auschwitz-Birkenau during the World War II. Her parents and brother died in captivity. Veil returned to speak in 2005, for the 60-th anniversary of the liberation of the camps. She became a lawyer. As a minister for health it is important to note that another very important law aside the abortion law that had her name, she fought for the law opening access to contraception and information about birth control. Because of this success she had big political fights with male colleagues. She’s been the first president of the European Parliament in 1979. In the Academy’s 371 year history, Veil has become the sixth woman that became “immortal” as members are popularly known in France. She took 17 Century writer Jean Racine’s seat at the Academy. During her speech, Veil shared that ! she adores French language. “My mother, who vanished in! the hel l of Bergen-Belsen a few days before it was liberated, revered the French language. Even more than I am right now, she would have been dazzled that her daughter would be here today to take the seat that had once belonged to Racine ” – said Veil, who’s biography is full with other big international awards. Four years ago, she surprised political analysts when she gave support to neo-conservative presidential candidate Sarkozy.

by Zivka Deleva for Cantell TV (http://cantell.tv)

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