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have recourse

verb as in refer

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I hope it creates maybe a little bit more space where scientists feel more comfortable in speaking out, speaking truth to power, speaking publicly about the broader implications of their science, knowing that there are some basic protections in our system and that they do have recourse if they are subject to those sorts of scurrilous attacks.

From Salon

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.”

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