CNews compared number of voluntary terminations of pregnancies with the number of deaths from cancer and tobacco. The news channel, owned by conservative billionaire Vincent Bolloré, is widely criticized for its positions or bias.

“We are not talking about women who could die from clandestine abortions, but about embryos,” denounces Rose Lamy, behind the Instagram account @Preparez_vous_pour_la_bagarre. The political class reacted strongly, with Mathilde Panot announcing she would seize the Regulatory Authority for Audiovisual and Digital Communication (Arcom)