“
What is the future of a society that kills its own?
Euthanasia is decadence.
We are in a world that destroys everything
”.
Cécile, 57, anti-abortion, is a regular at the March for Life.
But on this freezing Sunday in January, this dental assistant evokes another reason for participating in the annual march against abortion organized in Paris, near the Montparnasse station: the debate on the end of life launched this fall by the president of the Republic.
“
I don't understand this relentlessness in wanting to kill people.
Is it to avoid paying too much in pensions
, ”she quips.
Beside him, Marie-Alix, 65, holds a sign that reads "
Living is a right, not a choice
".
"I am Christian.
“You will not kill”: that makes sense to me
,” she comments.
Pascale Morinière, head of the Catholic Family Associations (AFC), however, hopes that the message does not only affect believers.
"The Hippocratic oath
- 'I will never cause death deliberately', dates from 400 years BC It is a humanist message that goes far beyond religions"
, she notes.
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Near an enclosure that sounds the "
Macarena
", Lorie, a 26-year-old saleswoman, came to "
alert the ruling class against these deadly excesses
".
This is the first time she has taken part in the March for Life.
Unlike François-Xavier and Marie-Alix, who traveled from Nantes with their children.
They met in 2013, at the Manif pour tous.
At the time, the crowd was bigger.
“Stop pissing off the embryos”
Femens, bare breasts, displaying the slogan "
IVG, it's sacred
" on the chest, made an appearance in front of the procession before being arrested.
Other slogans dot the pink and yellow placards distributed by the organizers of the march such as "
Euthanasia hypocritical oath
" or "
Stop bothering embryos
".
The organizers of the parade did not want to ignore the constitutionalization of the Veil law, soon to be examined in the Senate.
"
Life must be respected from conception to natural death,
" said Nicolas Tardy-Joubert, president of the rally.
However, he insists on the 70% of French people eligible for palliative care who do not have access to it.
"
This is the real political priority.
The real scandal
, ”he points out.
On the podium, professor of medicine Timothy Devos, author of Euthanasia, behind the scenes, came
to "warn
" the French about the evolution of the law in Belgium.
“
20 years after the decriminalization of euthanasia, we can see that this is not a model to follow.
One in three euthanasia is not declared, he criticizes.
A growing share of elderly and vulnerable people are asking for it.
They are not at the end of their life but are afraid of being a burden on their family
”.
