National demonstration for abortion rights in Paris

Written by Sandeep Nehra

A national demonstration to defend the right to abortion and the public hospital is held on Saturday in Paris and will join the Inter cons of pension reform, said initiators on Friday.

Surduts for Maya, the Collective for women’s rights, the date had been arrested on March 6, has been maintained since, she says, “France is a country family is struggling to accept and recognize a genuine right women to choose motherhood and planning. ”

“Abortion is a taboo. We got on paper, longer delays of 10 to 12 weeks, which places France at the European average, and the removal of parental consent for minors, but he More and more doctors refusing to perform abortions, “she says.

Many private facilities have closed, public facilities have been consolidated and the weakness of the package paid by Social Security to abortion make access more difficult for the 220,000 women who use them each year in France.

Three feminist organizations, the Ancic (National Association of abortion and contraception), the Cadac (National Coordination for the right to abortion and contraception) and Family Planning, organizing this national event which starts Place d’Italie before joining, Place de la Bastille, the procession against the pension reform.

“Initially, the event was national, but given the movement against pension, many local committees have decided to hold a demonstration for abortion rights in their city at the same time as that of pensions. There will therefore also local events, especially in Poitiers, Montpellier and Orleans, “he told AFP Marie-Pierre Martinet, Secretary General of Family Planning.

LMDE (Mutual of students) and the UNEF (first student union) also called for demonstrations as “the right to abortion becomes an obstacle course.”

“More and more women to abort his discouraged or find themselves without a solution beyond the legal limit for abortion,” they added.

According LMDE, “among the students who performed an abortion, 27% of them reported having had difficulties in making the practice”.

The interassociation lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT Inter-) Ausi supports the initiative, citing “an unprecedented dismantling of our health system” with “many closures of abortion centers,” resulting in “reduced without previous health care provision.

“Now, do not respond in time to requests from women seeking abortion amounts to calling into question the fundamental right of women to control their bodies.” Added the Inter-LGBT.

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