“We will not tolerate any hindrance to the right to abortion.”
The socialist deputy Arthur Delaporte announced Monday on
❌ We will not tolerate any hindrance to the right to abortion.
With several colleagues @socialistesAN we are contacting the Public Prosecutor and Arcom after the comments made on Cnews yesterday.
Our mail ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/Cp1OogBidG
— Arthur Delaporte (@ArthurDelaporte) February 26, 2024
“While the right to abortion is threatened in many countries, these comments which equate abortion to a death and draw a parallel with cancer are unacceptable and undermine the right to abortion by having the effect of making people feel guilty. people having recourse to abortion”, write the socialist deputies in a letter addressed to the public prosecutor of Paris, Laure Beccuau.
In a sequence broadcast on Sunday in the program “In search of spirit”, devoted to the subject of abortion, CNews compares the number of voluntary terminations of pregnancies to the number of deaths from cancer and tobacco.
The presenter Aymeric Pourbaix mentions the number of 73 million in 2022, without specifying what the figure refers to, while the infographic broadcast on the screen at the same time lists "abortion" at the top of the "causes of mortality in the world ".
Facts which “may constitute an offense known as obstruction of the right to abortion”, according to the socialist deputies, who refer to article 40 of the Code of Criminal Procedure.
CNews apologizes
On Monday, the channel presented “its apologies” through presenter Laurence Ferrari.
“The CNews channel apologizes to its viewers for this error which should not have happened” and “to all women,” declared the journalist at the start of her show Punchline.
“These are incomparable data, it is absolutely impossible to compare these figures and mirror them to those of mortality linked to cancer or tobacco,” she insisted.
On
“We apologize to CNews viewers for the broadcast yesterday, following a technical error, of the sequence mentioned below.
This had precisely been deleted during the final editing and should therefore never have been broadcast,” he wrote.
We apologize to CNews viewers for the broadcast yesterday, following a technical error, of the sequence mentioned below.
This had precisely been deleted during the final edit and should therefore never have been broadcast.
We would like to ensure… https://t.co/PBOVg2m3X8
— Gérald-Brice Viret 🇫🇷 (@gbviret) February 26, 2024
Several referrals to Arcom
The infographic has been the subject of numerous referrals to Arcom.
“CNews always goes further into the abject,” denounced Mathilde Panot, the head of the rebellious deputies, at the origin of a referral, on X.
“These comments are outrageous.
More than ever, the inclusion of abortion in the Constitution initiated by Emmanuel Macron is an essential step forward,” also reacted Frédéric Valletoux, the Minister Delegate in charge of Health.
“Abortion is a freedom,” he added.