About a thousand people demonstrated in calm Sunday January 31 in front of the Ministry of Health in Paris against the bioethics bill, at the call of the associative movement "Marchons Enfants!".
This rally follows several demonstrations which took place on Saturday in France, in particular in Rennes and Angers where clashes pitted demonstrators and counter-demonstrators.
Clashes between supporters and opponents of the bioethics bill, Sunday afternoon in Lyon, the police intervening to separate them.
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“Paternity is not an option, and motherhood is not a benefit”
or
“Macron, your law, we don't want it”
were sung by the demonstrators, many of whom came with their families.
On the small red or green flags held by all the demonstrators, one could read in particular
"confined democracy, bill to be withdrawn"
.
The bioethics bill and its flagship measure, the opening of the PMA to all women, will come back from February 2, at second reading, in the chamber of the Senate dominated by the opposition.
"They take advantage of the context to try to move forward on the sly even when political life is reduced to its simplest expression, that there is no longer any real debate between the majority and the oppositions, but luckily you are there"
, launched Ludovine de la Rochère, president of La Manif pour tous, from a platform overlooking the demonstrators.
"I denounce what is nothing but a democratic hold-up
," she shouted into the microphone.
“There is still time to withdraw this bill”
, she hammered before singing
“we will not let go, never, never, never”
.