In Paris, January 19, 2020. – CHRISTOPHE ARCHAMBAULT / AFP
Tens of thousands of opponents at the opening of the LDCs to all women, 26,000 according to a count of the Occurrence cabinet, 41,000 according to the police, paraded Sunday at
Paris.
One week after the adoption of the bill by the Senate in committee, which did not question the essence of the text already voted by the National Assembly, a group of 22 associations, including
Demonstration for all, had called to assemble Sunday under the banner “Let’s Walk Children! “. On Tuesday, the bill will be considered by the entire Senate.
“Fatherless orphans”
A red and green crowd began to march around 1:45 p.m. from the Alma Bridge and towards the Place de l’Opéra. “We are there to demand the withdrawal of this antiethical bill (…) which will allow it to be rewritten on the basis of fraternity, solidarity, respect for human beings”, declared the president of Manif for all, Ludovine de la Rochère, before the start of the event. “The fatherless PMA would make fatherless orphans,” she warned, condemning “the creation of a filiation of intention that does not correspond to anything.”
“We have put a lot of emphasis on PMA, but it has hidden all the excesses” contained in the reform, said Pascale Morinière, president of Catholic Family Associations (AFC). Citing transgenic or chimeric embryos and research on the embryo authorized for up to 21 days, she called for declaring “a bioethical state of emergency”, saying that “a red line [était] crossed “. “All that is proposed will bring a commercialization of the living,” for his part warned Patrice Obert, president of the Pink Pisces, a political group of leftist Christians.
A withdrawal a priori excluded
The collective does not exclude other demonstrations “in the coming weeks”, in the event of the status quo of the text and “non-opening of a dialogue”. What seems excluded, as recalled by the Minister of National Education just before the demonstration, on France Inter: “The government’s program is clear and will not deviate”, recalling that this point “was in the program of Emmanuel Macron “.
The demonstration gathered almost three times less people than at the previous rally on October 6, where 74,500 people had marched through the streets of the capital before the text was passed by the National Assembly.
