Europe 1 with AFP 8:57 p.m., March 5, 2024

This Tuesday, after the discovery of an anti-abortion tag on the walls of Family Planning in Strasbourg and the day after the inclusion of abortion in the Constitution, the structure announced that a complaint will be filed.

After the inclusion of abortion in the Constitution, the words “Planning assassin” were sprayed on the front of the Strasbourg Family Planning Centre, an AFP journalist noted on Tuesday.

“We are going to file a complaint, just as we have already done previously, this is not the first attack of this type unfortunately,” reacted Claire Riffel, employee of Family Planning.

“The question of the impact on our audience bothers us, the message is placed in a place where we come to seek support and an absence of judgment. This contravenes the possibility for people to come and find this resource place”, a- she added.

“It’s a guilty message”

The tag was the subject of immediate condemnation from the European Community of Alsace (CEA), the main partner of Family Planning in the department.

“It’s a real attack against Planning, against abortion,” lamented Nicolas Matt, vice-president of the CEA in charge of youth, denouncing an “odious act”.

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“It’s a guilt-inducing message, we have to think about the young girls who are going to come here, who are already going through psychologically difficult processes,” he continued.

“With the inclusion of abortion in the Constitution, even if it is a considerable step forward, it is a right for which we will have to continue to fight.”

“This attack shows us once again, if necessary, that the fight to protect women's rights must continue and intensify,” responded Bas-Rhin MP Bruno Studer in a press release.

France on Monday became the first country in the world to explicitly include voluntary termination of pregnancy (abortion) in its Constitution, after very broad approval from Parliament meeting in Congress at the Château de Versailles.

Already targeted several times in March 2023

But the right to voluntary termination of pregnancy remains "in danger" and "at the mercy of those who decide", Prime Minister Gabriel Attal warned parliamentarians.

The premises of Family Planning in Strasbourg had already been targeted several times in March 2023 by tags opposing the right to abortion.

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The founder of the Simone Veil Medical Institute in Rouen, which supports women in the process of having an abortion, announced to AFP that she had filed a complaint on Tuesday after "recurring acts of malicious intent".

“People block false appointments up to three times a week, there have been a little more for three weeks and the debate on inclusion in the Constitution,” regretted Doctor Marianne Lainé.

"Causing a loss of opportunity for patients is reprehensible. Our website is currently hacked by a pornographic site and Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne canceled a visit last summer after 'Borne your mother should have aborted' was tagged on a wall in front of the institute,” she said.