Remembering Simone Veil, A Women's Rights Champion Little-Known Outside France

In late June, France lost Simone Veil, one of the most important figures in the long battle for women’s rights. Little-known outside the French-speaking world, Veil, who died at the age of 89 from natural causes, was a Holocaust survivor who gained fame– and the ire of many– for helping to pass legislation in France that granted women reproductive right…