Anti-PMA
demonstration
in Lyon -
KONRAD K./SIPA
On Saturday, demonstrators opposed to the bioethics bill gathered in several cities in France to protest in particular against the opening of the PMA to all women.
Responding to the call of the collective of associations Marchons Enfants, including the Manif pour tous, the demonstrators were 1,700 according to the organizers in Versailles, several hundred in Paris, Toulouse, Lille, Rennes, Bordeaux, Lyon or even Clermont-Ferrand.
Before the bill is considered in the Senate
In Paris, Place Vendôme, in front of the Ministry of Justice, opponents chanted "Macron, your law we do not want", or "PMA and GPA, we do not want it.
In France, humans cannot be sold ”.
At the platform, several associations took turns to denounce a text that "threatens children", the anti-abortion association Alliance Vita asking for its part "the end of the eugenic process".
Passed on August 1 at second reading in the National Assembly, the bill, whose flagship measure is the opening of medically assisted procreation (MAP) to all women, must be examined in the Senate on a date not yet fixed , towards the end of the year or the beginning of 2021. "We ask for its withdrawal with a view to an in-depth rewriting" by the senators, declared to the press in Paris, the president of the Manif pour tous, Ludovine de la Rochère.
Counter-demonstrations too
Counter-demonstrations were held in several cities: in Rennes, Clermont-Ferrand, Toulouse - where police officers charged with tear gas and batons a group of about twenty LGBT activists positioned on the course -, or in Lyon - where a hundred LGBT and “antifa” activists briefly tried to disturb the speeches.
In Nice, counter-demonstrators waved "Let go of the uterus" signs.
"You do not have a monopoly on the family," chanted protesters in Bordeaux to the address of the anti-PMA.
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