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Diane de Vignemont

@diane2v.bsky.social
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Freelance journalist, always open to commissions ✍️ New Lines Magazine, Prospect Magazine, Jacobin Magazine, Libération, L'Humanité Magazine, Arrêt sur images, Causette, Têtu·, Retronews, France-Amérique Magazine dianedevignemont.com

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Diane de Vignemont @diane2v.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
My latest, for @newlinesmag.bsky.social: Pope Leo and the Trojan Cross From far-right billionaires to ultraconservative TikTok influencers, a who’s who of France’s identitarian Catholics hijacked the pope’s visit to France newlinesmag.com/spotlight/ho...
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How France’s Religious Nationalists Hijacked the Pope’s Visit
From far-right billionaires to ultraconservative TikTok influencers, the movement laid Easter eggs all along Leo XIV’s trail through Paris
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Diane de Vignemont @diane2v.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
« Ça porte malheur de voir la mariée » — @phineasjfr.bsky.social
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Lisa Goldman @lisang.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Diane de Vignemont writes in clear language about the Society of Saint Pius X, which is hankering for the good ol' days of Vichy France and a Judenrein Paris. "In France, our history won’t let us call it merely traditionalist. We know exactly what to call it."
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The Dark History Behind This Week’s Schism in the Catholic Church
By framing the Society of Saint Pius X as quaint "traditionalists," U.S. media coverage is whitewashing the group's record of fascist sympathies and antisemitism.
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Truthdig @truthdig.com · 21/07/2026
While the perpetrators have been given less lenient punishments, advocates worry the case sends the message to victims that their pain is unimportant. By @diane2v.bsky.social
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The Case of the Fordingbridge Three Exposes a System Stacked Against Rape Survivors
While the perpetrators have been given less lenient punishments, advocates worry the case sends the message to victims that their pain is unimportant.
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Diane de Vignemont @diane2v.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Two young girls were raped, filmed, and mocked by three teenage boys. Convicted on 10 rape charges, the Fordingbridge Three still walked free. My latest for @truthdig.com, inside the case exposing how ”himpathy” for young offenders stacks the system against survivors www.truthdig.com/articles/the...
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The Case of the Fordingbridge Three Exposes a System Stacked Against Rape Survivors
While the perpetrators have been given less lenient punishments, advocates worry the case sends the message to victims that their pain is unimportant.
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jenna newman phd @jennanewman.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
“A [!”]highly effective[“!] tool, the tenaculum is still routinely used w/o anesthesia on 120 million patients/yr for IUD insertions, biopsies, hysteroscopies & fertility treatments. It causes mild to severe pain in *NINETY PERCENT* of patients & has remained largely unchanged for over 135 yrs.”🛟🧪
“By the mid-2o10s, David Finci, a Swiss OBGYN, had grown increasingly uncomfortable using the tenaculum on his patients during IUD insertions. Ikram Guerd, Aspivix's generahmanager and CMO, told Truthdig that Finci often felt
"ashamed" of hurting his patients with a tool that had been adapted from a Civil War-era bullet extractor

Several decades ago, researchers proved that the cervix is actually dense with nerve endings. Though the science has been corrected, the instrument itself hasn't. The same goes for the cold, metal speculum; tested on enslaved women and still routinely described as the "can opener" by uncomfortable patients, it continues to be sold, taught and used, often alongside Pozzi's bullet extractor.”
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Truthdig @truthdig.com · 08/07/2026
A new medical device is part of a broader effort to make gynecological care less painful — and to take women’s pain more seriously. Co-published with @19thnews.org By @diane2v.bsky.social
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Revolutionizing Gynecology With Women in Mind - Truthdig
A new medical device is part of a broader effort to make gynecological care less painful — and to take women’s pain more seriously.
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Diane de Vignemont @diane2v.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Gynecology has a pain problem. In my latest for @truthdig.com, I look at the doctors and inventors challenging the Civil War-era instrument that has caused women pain for over 135 years, and — finally — designing gynecological tools with women in mind. www.truthdig.com/articles/rev...
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Revolutionizing Gynecology With Women in Mind - Truthdig
A new medical device is part of a broader effort to make gynecological care less painful — and to take women’s pain more seriously.
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Phineas James @phineasjfr.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Incredibly honored to be engaged to @diane2v.bsky.social, despite her random British spelling of things, and so proud of her for this prize.
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Diane de Vignemont @diane2v.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
My latest, for @newlinesmag.bsky.social By framing the Society of Saint Pius X as a quaint “rebel” or “traditionalist” Catholic group, U.S. media coverage is whitewashing the SSPX’s dark history of fascist sympathies and antisemitism. newlinesmag.com/running-note...
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The Dark History Behind This Week’s Schism in the Catholic Church
By framing the Society of Saint Pius X as quaint "traditionalists," U.S. media coverage is whitewashing the group's record of fascist sympathies and antisemitism.
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Danny Postel @dannypostel.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
By framing the Society of Saint Pius X as a quaint “rebel” or “traditionalist” Catholic group, U.S. media coverage is whitewashing the SSPX’s dark history of fascist sympathies and antisemitism. @diane2v.bsky.social breaks it down in this incisive New Lines piece. newlinesmag.com/running-note...
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The Dark History Behind This Week’s Schism in the Catholic Church
By framing the Society of Saint Pius X as quaint "traditionalists," U.S. media coverage is whitewashing the group's record of fascist sympathies and antisemitism.
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Diane de Vignemont @diane2v.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
My latest, for @thepersistent.bsky.social www.thepersistent.com/lee-miller-r...
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Lee Miller Was Never Not in the Frame
We can’t seem to stop staring at Lee Miller.
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John Merrick @johnmerrick.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
What I find ominous about Vauban Books is not simply its decision to republish France’s most notorious authors, but the strategic care with which they have reframed them as neglected classics of political thought unjustly excluded from translation by a timid or ideological publishing establishment.
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John Merrick @johnmerrick.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
FWIW i read the Vauban edition of Camp of the Saints a few months ago and its extreme racism and its dehumanising black and brown people i found genuinely disgusting. Almost as bad, it's also absolutely garbage as a novel!
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John Merrick @johnmerrick.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
This is a brilliant essay on Vauban Books, a small American press publishing far-right French books in translation souvenirmagazineparis.substack.com/p/the-great-...
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THE GREAT REBRANDING
Inside the ‘Dissident’ World of Vauban Books
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Diane de Vignemont @diane2v.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
My latest, for Souvenir Magazine Vauban Books, an indie publishing house out of North Carolina, has been quietly translating, annotating, and rebranding the greatest hits of the French far-right for an ever-growing anglophone audience. souvenirmagazineparis.substack.com/p/the-great-...
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THE GREAT REBRANDING
Inside the ‘Dissident’ World of Vauban Books
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Janet Hulstrand @janetjoy.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
So proud of this journalist & her reporting on the wonderful, brave, kind, smart people of #Minnesota. #DefendDemocracy #resist #solidarity #community
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Diane de Vignemont @diane2v.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
I am incredibly honoured to have been awarded this year's Daniel Singer Prize for my (very personal) New Lines Magazine essay on the Minneapolis Uprising. I'll be talking about the lessons of the French Resistance for grassroots movements in the present day at the Socialism Conf in Chicago this fall
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Diane de Vignemont @diane2v.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
My latest, for Souvenir Magazine Vauban Books, an indie publishing house out of North Carolina, has been quietly translating, annotating, and rebranding the greatest hits of the French far-right for an ever-growing anglophone audience. souvenirmagazineparis.substack.com/p/the-great-...
souvenirmagazineparis.substack.com
THE GREAT REBRANDING
Inside the ‘Dissident’ World of Vauban Books
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Truthdig @truthdig.com · 27/03/2026
French society has been shaken by the public trial of 51 rapists — leading to an emboldened feminist movement and a clearer definition of rape. But women feel there is still a long way to go. By @diane2v.bsky.social www.truthdig.com/articles/fra...
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France Was Changed by the Gisèle Pelicot Case, But Not Enough
French society has been shaken by the public trial of 51 rapists — leading to an emboldened feminist movement and a clearer definition of rape. But women feel there is still a long way to go.
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Phineas James @phineasjfr.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Another great read from @diane2v.bsky.social on the societal impacts of the Pelicot trial in #France. And check out @truthdig.com's excellent work as well!
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Diane de Vignemont @diane2v.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
My latest, for @truthdig.com During the first days of the trial of Gisèle Pelicot's 51 rapists, we had no way of knowing whether the men sitting next to us in court were attendees, fellow reporters — or rapists. For France, that realization was a turning point. www.truthdig.com/articles/fra...
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France Was Changed by the Gisèle Pelicot Case, But Not Enough
French society has been shaken by the public trial of 51 rapists — leading to an emboldened feminist movement and a clearer definition of rape. But women feel there is still a long way to go.
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Martin Winckler/Marc Zaffran @martinwinckler.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
"My body is not an incubator for a dying economic model, and no amount of “demographic rearmament” will work if the world I am being asked to populate looks more uncertain by the day." Great paper, Diane !
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Phineas James @phineasjfr.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
@diane2v.bsky.social has an excellent new story in @thepersistent.bsky.social about the French "fertility letter" and why it misses the point. Check it out here! www.thepersistent.com/france-ferti...
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Having A Baby Isn't Just a Medical Decision
France's fertility warning letter doesn't account for the social implications of having a baby.
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Diane de Vignemont @diane2v.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
In my latest for @thepersistent.bsky.social, I argue that the French government's decision to write to 29-year-olds to "combat" infertility misses the point, because the decision to have a child isn't just a medical issue, it's a social one, too. www.thepersistent.com/france-ferti...
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Having A Baby Isn't Just a Medical Decision
France's fertility warning letter doesn't account for the social implications of having a baby.
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Diane de Vignemont @diane2v.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
My latest, for @thepersistent.bsky.social
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Diane de Vignemont @diane2v.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
On my latest, for @newlinesmag.bsky.social
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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 04/02/2026
Whatever you think of the Washington Post at this moment, here's a chance to support the dedicated, hard-working journalists who were just laid off. If you have the means, your donation is most welcome. If you don't, a kind thought and maybe spreading the word to others is support enough 💙
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Donate to Washington Post 2026 layoff fund, organized by Rachel Siegel
On Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2026, The Washington Post laid off hundreds of journalists. We ar… Rachel Siegel needs your support for Washington Post 2026 layoff fund
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Diane de Vignemont @diane2v.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
In Minneapolis, the sounds of ICE Watch whistles echo the church bells that guided Resistance in occupied France. In my latest for @newlinesmag.bsky.social, I spoke to Minnesotans & WWII historians to explore the lessons of such parallels for the Minneapolis uprising newlinesmag.com/essays/minne...
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Minneapolis Protests Sound a Lot Like the French Resistance
Minnesota is not occupied France, but historians see some parallels with the neighborhood groups and solidarity networks responding to federal operations today
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New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
In one of our current top reads, @diane2v.bsky.social speaks to Minnesotans and historians, exploring the usefulness of parallels between today’s anti-ICE protests in the U.S. and the French Resistance. newlinesmag.com/essays/minne...
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Minneapolis Protests Sound a Lot Like the French Resistance
Minnesota is not occupied France, but historians see some parallels with the neighborhood groups and solidarity networks responding to federal operations today
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Martin Winckler/Marc Zaffran @martinwinckler.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
France is not alone in abuse scandals in religious institutions and boarding schools. But the reason the country has not (yet) seen a moment of reckoning with these injustices is because of the enduring legacy of the French cult of obedience. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/europe...
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‘Gulag of the Pyrenees’: France’s Catholic school shame
A historic abuse scandal at an elite French institution has consumed the country—and exposes a national failure to safeguard children
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New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
"The overwhelming form of resistance in occupied France was not resistance that announced itself, but resistance that hid inside normality — because visibility, in most cases, meant arrest. The same logic is quietly at work in Minneapolis." | @diane2v.bsky.social 
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Minneapolis Protests Sound a Lot Like the French Resistance
Minnesota is not occupied France, but historians see some parallels with the neighborhood groups and solidarity networks responding to federal operations today
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Diane de Vignemont @diane2v.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
With the spotlight (once again) on Epstein's famous friends and the impact of the scandal on their careers, we should (once again) ask: why does the media coverage focus on the men instead of the girls? My take on the cruelty of the Epstein files for @prospectmagazine.co.uk tinyurl.com/3aznrtfb
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Epstein’s birthday book and the girls with no names
On the central cruelty of the ‘The First Fifty Years’ albums
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Robert Pike @pikerobert.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
It was really interesting to talk to Diane de Vignemont about the parallels between events in Minneapolis and what happened in occupied France. This is a fascinating read.
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Katherine Firth @katherinefirth.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
“ I see Americans putting together a protest that is massive, even by French standards”. A properly historiographical view from Paris
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Diane de Vignemont @diane2v.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
“In Minnesota's heart, where the snow drifts deep, we sow the seeds that love will keep.” - Marc Skjervem, Minnesota Anthem youtu.be/uozLlmUhzZY?...
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Minnesota Anthem
YouTube video by Marc Skjervem
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Janet Hulstrand @janetjoy.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Tak så mycket, #Sverige! #Sweden #Minnesota #solidarity #democracy #justice #HumanRights @diane2v.bsky.social
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Minnesota Anthem
YouTube video by Marc Skjervem
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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
"Protests against ICE raids have spread far beyond Minnesota, with demonstrations reported in hundreds of towns and cities. These actions might not stop deportations in Minneapolis, but they do something else that historians recognize as vital: tell those resisting on the ground that they are seen."
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Virginia Reinburg @vreinburg.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Please read this wonderful article on the historical lessons of the French Resistance @diane2v.bsky.social
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New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
"From Paris, it is tempting to read the events unfolding in Minneapolis as history repeating itself. That temptation should be resisted. This is not occupied France. ... But history does not need to repeat itself to remain instructive."
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Minneapolis Protests Sound a Lot Like the French Resistance
Minnesota is not occupied France, but historians see some parallels with the neighborhood groups and solidarity networks responding to federal operations today
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Diane de Vignemont @diane2v.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
In Minneapolis, the sounds of ICE Watch whistles echo the church bells that guided Resistance in occupied France. In my latest for @newlinesmag.bsky.social, I spoke to Minnesotans & WWII historians to explore the lessons of such parallels for the Minneapolis uprising newlinesmag.com/essays/minne...
newlinesmag.com
Minneapolis Protests Sound a Lot Like the French Resistance
Minnesota is not occupied France, but historians see some parallels with the neighborhood groups and solidarity networks responding to federal operations today
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Diane de Vignemont @diane2v.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
In 1978, the World Cup helped whitewash the Argentinian dictatorship. In 2026, we refuse to let football distract from mass deportations and state violence in the U.S. No football between camps. #BoycottWorldCup2026
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Phineas James @phineasjfr.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
"The woman bears the physical burden, France bears the ethical one and Monaco keeps its hands clean. The ritual is sanitized, hidden, politically convenient." Another brilliant piece by @diane2v.bsky.social in @newlinesmag.bsky.social on the abortion veto in Monaco. newlinesmag.com/essays/a-roy...
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A Royal Veto Keeps Abortion Illegal in Monaco
Prince Albert II's decision to reject a popular bill reveals how Catholicism overrides women's rights and public opinion
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Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Terrific piece by @diane2v.bsky.social on monarchy, Catholicism, and abortion in Monaco.
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Mediapart @mediapart.fr · 17/12/2025
Au Chili, les gardiens de la mémoire des crimes de la dictature s’inquiètent Par @bougon.bsky.social
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Au Chili, les gardiens de la mémoire des crimes de la dictature s’inquiètent
En dépit du maigre soutien des autorités, des associations et collectifs tentent depuis des années d’entretenir le souvenir des violations des droits humains de la junte de Pinochet. L’élection de José Antonio Kast renforce leur détermination à lutter contre l’oubli et le négationnisme.
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Global Abortion Rights News @globalabortionnews.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
This is a great read. Monaco remains as one of 5 European nations with a strict abortion law (also Poland, Malta, Andorra and Liechtenstein).
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A Royal Veto Keeps Abortion Illegal in Monaco
Prince Albert II's decision to reject a popular bill reveals how Catholicism overrides women's rights and public opinion
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New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
“The ongoing standoff around abortion rights in Monaco is anchored in the very structure of the principality’s 1962 constitution and the monarchy it upholds.” @Diane2v.bsky.social reports on the Catholic Church's influence over a royal veto.
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A Royal Veto Keeps Abortion Illegal in Monaco
Prince Albert II's decision to reject a popular bill reveals how Catholicism overrides women's rights and public opinion
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Diane de Vignemont @diane2v.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Prince Albert II of Monaco's decision to veto a popular bill set to legalise abortion reveals how Catholicism still overrides both women's rights and public opinion in the Principality. My latest, for @newlinesmag.bsky.social newlinesmag.com/essays/a-roy...
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A Royal Veto Keeps Abortion Illegal in Monaco
Prince Albert II's decision to reject a popular bill reveals how Catholicism overrides women's rights and public opinion
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Diane de Vignemont @diane2v.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
My latest, for @newlinesmag.bsky.social
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