There are situations in which sixty seconds can seem like an eternity. As when, with their eyes fixed on the ground, their faces grave and their hands clasped, several thousand people gather in silence, in homage to the “10 million unborn babies in France”. Fifty years after its decriminalization by the Veil law and almost a year after its constitutionalization, on March 8, 2024, opponents of the right to voluntary termination of pregnancy (IVG) met this Sunday, January 19 on the square du Trocadéro, in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. “This bad law has made it possible to widely open the dikes of the culture of death,” denounced in this regard the press release of the organization, which predicted an edition “very special” of the “March for Life”.
On the huge stage with its back to the Eiffel Tower, the crackling speakers spit out, like every year since 2005, the traditional anti-abortion clichés. “Abortion is the leading cause of death in France”, “we have constitutionalized the right to kill our own child”, “we suppress those we do not want, this reminds me of a dark era”, vituperates Maria Rachele Ruiu, president of the Italian anti-abortion march, before inviting those present – of all ages and almost exclusively white – to listen two
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