Thousands of people, many of them young, marched Sunday in Paris for the 13th "March for Life", in opposition to abortion, AFP reported. "Living is a right", "IVG: telling the truth, it's dissuading", "Protecting the weak, that's strong", proclaimed the various signs in a procession that left the Porte Dauphine towards the Trocadero.
"Macron, do not touch the embryos". Protesters, many of whom mention the 220,000 children "prevented from being born" every year (216,700 abortions were performed in France in 2017, a stable figure since 2001), wore blue headscarves that read: "Walking for the Life January 20, 2019 ". "Macron, Macron, do not touch the embryos," they chanted, behind a banner saying "life offers no guarantee, abortion leaves no chance". Convinced to gather "this year a lot of people", in the "context" of the movement of "yellow vests", Nicolas Sevillia, delegate general of the March, explained that "beyond the" social distress ", it is "also an immaterial suffering" which is expressed.
Mobilization against the bioethics law. Today's march is "the first act of citizen mobilization against the revision of the bioethics law", he added. The PMA for all, "it is the tree that hides the forest", things "much more serious" appear in the draft revision, abounded Jean-Marie Le Méné, president of the foundation Lejeune. For him, the government considers "the treatment of gametes" and "the use of the embryo in research". Viviane Lambert, who will dispute Monday at a new hearing in Chalons-en-Champagne the procedure of stopping care for his son Vincent, in a vegetative state for ten years, said "very impressed to see everyone for defend life ". "We are starting to be worn out by this end-of-life story but Vincent is resisting and we will resist with him to the end," she added.
A guest Argentinian guest. An Argentine Senator, Mario Fiad, spoke at the beginning of the rally to "support" the march. The Argentinian Senate voted against abortion in August, after debates marked by "very strong pressure" from international organizations. The "March for Life" is "non-confessional" but the apostolic nunciature (Embassy of the Holy See) in Paris has, according to the organizers, conveyed a message of encouragement from Pope Francis.