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have recourse to

verb as in draw on

verb as in invoke

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It will include the phrase saying, “the freedom of women to have recourse to an abortion, which is guaranteed.”

Supreme Court decision overturning long-held abortion rights was the catalyst for the French parliament’s overwhelming vote Monday to add a constitutional amendment proclaiming “the freedom of women to have recourse to an abortion, which is guaranteed.”

On a 780 to 72 vote, lawmakers explicitly concluded that, in Article 34, "the law determines the conditions in which a woman has the guaranteed freedom to have recourse to an abortion."

From Salon

Macron’s government wants Article 34 of the French constitution amended to specify that “the law determines the conditions by which is exercised the freedom of women to have recourse to an abortion, which is guaranteed.”

"I pledged to make women's freedom to have recourse to abortion irreversible by enshrining it in the Constitution."

From Salon

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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