[2] She received an abortion underground, as it was illegal in France at the time, but she suffered from hemorrhaging and required hospitalization.
[5] Arrested for a case of grand theft auto unrelated to the rape, Chevalier's rapist revealed her abortion as a means to escape prosecution and obtain his release.
[2] In her 1973 book, Le procès de Bobigny, Halimi defended Chevalier's decision to abort and said it was a "citizen act of civic disobedience".
[7] In 2006, she commented on Halimi's book, Le procès de Bobigny, mentioning that the Veil Act was "a little thanks to me that it was voted, it was a bit mine".
[5] The year before, a blue metal footbridge was named in her honor in Bobigny in front of the commune's courthouse,[8][9] but it was closed in 2021.