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. .
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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.
"In France, humans cannot be sold"
In Paris, Place Vendôme, in front of the Ministry of Justice, the demonstrators chanted "
Macron, your law we do not want
", "
Liberty, equality, paternity
", or "
PMA and GPA, we do not want it. not.
In France, humans cannot be sold
”.
At the platform, several associations took turns to denounce a text that "
threatens children
", the anti-abortion association Alliance Vita asking for its part "
the end of the eugenic process
".
Due to the coronavirus, protests are limited in several cities, including Paris, to 1,000 people.
"
We have anticipated by multiplying the demonstrations
", explained the president of the Manif pour tous, Ludovine de la Rochère, "
There will be six gatherings in Ile-de-France, in particular Paris, Versailles and Bondy (Seine-Saint- Denis)
”.
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"
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.
She denounced a text which "
voluntarily institutes the absence of a father
", and introduces according to her a "
fictitious filiation
", managed "
by the State
".
“
With assisted reproduction without a father and without a medical reason, we divert medicine from its purpose and deprive the child of the father all his life and even before his conception
”, she added.
“
There is no right to the child.
Medicine is not there to achieve our desires
”.
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
”.
Counter-demonstrations
“
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 that allows one to conceive a little one, it is not possible,
”testifies Odile Thomas, a demonstrator from 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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On the sidelines, counter-demonstrators were also present in opposition to these rallies.
In Rennes, where around 200 demonstrators gathered, more than 300 counter-demonstrators were also present on Place Charles-de-Gaulle.
In Nantes, around 1,000 protesters against the bioethics bill gathered in Place Royale, while nearly 500 counter-protesters marched through the streets of the city.
In Toulouse, a counter-demonstration, not declared in the prefecture, was also organized by LGBT activists as well as members of left-wing parties.
