Paris (AFP)
"Freedom, equality, fatherhood": 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, AFP journalists noted.
Responding to the call of the collective of associations Marchons Enfants, including the Manif pour tous, the demonstrators were several hundred in Paris, Toulouse, Lille, Rennes, Bordeaux and Lyon or between 300 to 400 people in Clermont-Ferrand according to the organizers. .
In Paris, Place Vendôme, in front of the Ministry of Justice, demonstrators chanted "Macron, your law we do not want", or "PMA and surrogacy, we do not want it. In France humans do not not sell ".
At the platform, several associations took turns denouncing a text which "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.
She denounced a text which "voluntarily institutes the absence of a father", and introduces according to her a "fictitious filiation", managed "by the State".
While surrogacy does not appear in the text, she also ruled that "of course that at the next revision of the bioethics law (...) it will be surrogacy for male couples and men alone ".
"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".
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