Several demonstrations were held in France on Saturday, in particular in Paris, Lille, Rennes and Bordeaux, to denounce the bioethics bill which envisages opening the assisted reproduction to all women.

In Toulouse and Lyon, the protesters opposed LGBT activists, dispersed by the police.

"Freedom, equality, paternity": demonstrators opposed to the bioethics bill gathered in several cities in France on Saturday 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, Clermont-Ferrand.

Anti-PMA denounce a text that "threatens children"

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 do not not sell ".

At the rostrum, several associations took turns denouncing a text that "threatens children", the anti-abortion association Alliance Vita asking for its part "to stop the eugenics 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 early 2021.

"We ask for its withdrawal for a rewrite in depth" by the senators, declared to the press in Paris, the president of the Manif pour tous, Ludovine de la Rochère.

"This bill is a commodification of the human being. We go to the hospital to buy a baby out of I do not know where, there is no longer the act of love which makes it possible to conceive a little one, c 'is not possible ", testifies Odile Thomas, a demonstrator of Clermont-Ferrand.

"I want all children to have a daddy, but a daddy can't be made", gets carried away Denis, 50, real estate agent and "father", he says.

For this Bordeaux protester, "the family - a father, a mother and one or more children - is the breeding ground for society".

In Toulouse, young women wearing Phrygian caps stood behind supermarket carts where barcode stickers and fake 500 euro bills were stuck to plastic dolls.

Clashes in Toulouse and Lyon

Counter-demonstrations were held in several cities: in Rennes, Clermont-Ferrand, in Toulouse, where police officers charged with tear gas and batons a group of about twenty LGBT activists positioned on the route of the Manif pour tous, or again in Lyon, where a hundred LGBT activists and "antifas" briefly tried to disturb the speeches.

In Nice, counter-demonstrators held up signs "Let go of the uterus".

"You do not have a monopoly on the family," chanted protesters in Bordeaux at the address of the anti-PMA.

In January, tens of thousands of people from all over France, opposed to the opening of the PMA to all women, demonstrated in the capital, two days before the Senate consideration of the bill. .