50 years of the 343 manifesto: "Abortion is still a political question"
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MLAC "We do not beg a just right, we fight for it" Movement for the freedom of abortion and contraception - Feminism fight in the 70s "In the bazar du genre", exhibition MUCEM, Marseille © CC BY-ND 2.0 Jeanne Menjoulet
By: Jean-Baptiste Marot Follow
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“I declare that I am one of them.
I declare to have aborted.
Just as we demand free access to contraceptives, we demand free abortion.
This was the conclusion of the 343 manifesto. It was 50 years ago to the day: on April 5, 1971, 343 women demanded in a text published in the
Nouvel Observateur
the legalization of abortion.
At the time, there were at least 300,000 illegal immigrants.
Women risked their lives and their freedom to dispose of their bodies.
The genesis of this manifesto and the look at the evolution of society with Christine Delphy, research director at the CNRS and signatory in 1971.
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Christine Delphy is the author of
The main enemy: political economy of the patriarchy,
and
The main enemy: thinking about gender
(Syllepse editions)
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