A week after the decision of the American Supreme Court, several hundred people met, notably in Paris, Bordeaux and Toulouse, to defend the right to voluntary pregnancy interruption.
Le Monde with AFP
“Not touch my abortion.” Several hundred people demonstrated on Saturday July 2 in Paris “for the defense of the right to abortion” all over the world, in reaction to the questioning of the Abortion by the United States Supreme Court.
Evoking a “shock wave”, Suzy Rojtman, member of the collective “Abortion in Europe – women decide”, fears that in view “of the importance of the United States in the world”, the right to the ‘Voluntary termination of pregnancy (abortion) regresses “everywhere” and that “countries are inspired by the United States to deny this fundamental right”.
In the crowd, a 16 -year -old girl, Thaïs, brandished a sign “130 abortion centers have closed in 15 years” (in France). She is concerned about a “snowball effect”.
brandishing hangers painted in red, demonstrators, including men and many very young women, paraded by singing “from New York to Paris, free and free abortion”, or “abortion, we fought to win it, we will fight to keep it “.
” It’s a fundamental right “
“abortion saves lives”, “keep your laws off my body” (Take your laws from my body), “leave the women quiet for once”, “a right without means n ‘is not a right, “could be read on the participants’ signs. Many were written in English.
Organized at the call of the collective “abortion in Europe – women decide”, joined by numerous feminist associations, unions and political parties, several demonstrations were planned through France.
In Bordeaux, the rally also had a few hundred people (400 according to the police, a thousand according to the organizers). “It is not that the right to abortion but the right to dispose of our bodies freely. It is a fundamental right, which does not concern only France but women around the world,” said Johanna Tilché-Jean , “artist and mother”. For Nicole Blet, retirement nurse and member of the family planning in Gironde, “the law (in France) on abortion has always been fragile”, just like “its application”.
In Toulouse, a few dozen people, especially women, gathered under the slogan of “We are proud, women, radical and angry!”. “In France, we are not outside the world. We have to be careful,” explains Sandra Cassagnaud, 49. French women “are increasingly difficult to be taken care of for abortion.