They do not disarm.
A few days before the senators' examination of the bioethics bill, a few hundred demonstrators took to the esplanade of the business district of La Défense this Saturday, responding to the call of the group of associations Marchons Enfants , which includes the Manif pour tous.
Voted on August 1 at second reading in the National Assembly, the bill therefore remains firmly contested by the activists gathered this Saturday in about sixty cities.
And in particular its flagship measure: the opening of medically assisted procreation (MAP) to all women.
"We ask for its withdrawal with a view to an in-depth rewrite," insists Ludovine de la Rochère, the president of the Manif pour tous.
As it stands, this text voluntarily establishes the absence of a father.
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The fear of having to reappear the surrogacy
If the question of surrogacy (surrogacy) does not appear in the text that will be examined by the Senate, the activists fear to see it reappear "as soon as the next revision of the bioethics law".
"We are not hostile to a debate on the bill but we must take this opportunity to put safeguards," said Patrice Obert, president of the Pink Fish, a left-wing Christian association which joined the Marchons Enfants collective. .
It is not because technology and science allow things that they must necessarily be done ... "
By meeting on the vast esplanade of La Défense, the Marchons Enfants collective intended to organize the event while respecting barrier gestures, but not only.
"We also hope to educate a large public, we breathe in the organization.
And here, there are a lot of people who usually don't make the effort to listen to the messages that we want to convey.
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Passers-by not very receptive
Except that to tell the truth, the speech, this Saturday, does not seem to have infused beyond the militants.
"I hallucinate to see them still mobilize on this subject, breathes Antoine swallowing a sandwich, sitting on the steps of the Grande Arche.
Especially at this time, in the midst of a health crisis, there is still better things to do… ”
The audience will undoubtedly be more receptive to the speech, this Sunday, during a new demonstration organized this time in front of the Ministry of Health.