{"id":3323,"date":"2026-01-29T21:12:36","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T21:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/francechrono.com\/french-lawmakers-approve-bill-to-end-marital-duty-over-consent-concerns\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T21:12:36","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T21:12:36","slug":"french-lawmakers-approve-bill-to-end-marital-duty-over-consent-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/francechrono.com\/en\/french-lawmakers-approve-bill-to-end-marital-duty-over-consent-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"French lawmakers approve bill to end \u2018marital duty\u2019 over consent concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s.france24.com\/media\/display\/efd20604-f61d-11f0-ba0a-005056a97e36\/w:1024\/p:16x9\/2026-01-20T161325Z-1705529737-RC245JA65JXM-RTRMADP-3-FRANCE-POLITICS-BUDGET.jpg\" \/><br \/>French lawmakers unanimously approved a bill on Wednesday to end the notion of \u201cmarital duty\u201d following criticism from women\u2019s rights groups that it undermines sexual consent and enables marital rape. Backed by more than 120 MPs, the bill clarifies that cohabitation does not oblige spouses to have sex and now heads to the Senate for approval.<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/france\/20260128-french-lawmakers-bill-end-marital-duty\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French lawmakers unanimously approved a bill on Wednesday to end the notion of \u201cmarital duty\u201d following criticism from women\u2019s rights groups that it undermines sexual consent and enables marital rape. Backed by more than 120 MPs, the bill clarifies that cohabitation does not oblige spouses to have sex and now heads to the Senate for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,70],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3323","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-politics","7":"category-politique"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/francechrono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/francechrono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/francechrono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francechrono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francechrono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/francechrono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/francechrono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francechrono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francechrono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}