birth_date birthname term_end profession order term_start spouse image name deputy predecessor birth_place president party office successor religion primeminister article_title
13 july 1927 simone annie liline jacob 1982 4 july 1979 18 may 1995 lawyer , politician 12th minister of health july 1979 27 may 1974 29 march 1993 antoine veil tissot-panafieu gymnase japy 2008 02 27 n5.jpg simone veil philippe douste-blazy emilio colombo michel poniatowski bernard kouchner nice , france valéry giscard d'estaing françois mitterrand udf -lrb- 1995-1997 -rrb- udi -lrb- since 2012 -rrb- president of the european parliament piet dankert michel poniatowski elisabeth hubert judaism jacques chirac raymond barre edouard balladur simone veil

simone veil

simone veil , dbe -lrb- ; born 13 july 1927 -rrb- is a french lawyer and politician who served as minister of health under valéry giscard d'estaing , president of the european parliament and member of the constitutional council of france .
a survivor from the auschwitz-birkenau concentration camp where she lost part of her family , she is the honorary president of the fondation pour la mémoire de la shoah .
she was elected to the académie française in november 2008 .
she is best known for pushing forward the law legalizing abortion in france on 17 january 1975 .
