An opponent of the far right
It is a collective choice claimed by Sarah Durocher. Faced with danger “for women and for Family Planning” What would the arrival in power of the extreme right represent, the feminist association, which defends the right to contraception, abortion and sex education, calls not only to oppose the National Rally (as it systematically does), but also to vote for the New Popular Front during the legislative elections of June 30 and July 7. “The RN is not just a party, it is a social project opposed to the values of Planning”underlines the president of the association.
A grassroots activist
Born in 1986 in Saint-Jean de Braye, near Orléans, this daughter of a professor and a project manager at the Loire-Bretagne Water Agency began studying to become a social worker. At 17, she did an internship at Planning d’Orléans and decided to abandon her training to devote herself to activism. She rose through the ranks of the movement, becoming co-president in 2019, then president in 2022.
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“My feminist commitment is nourished by meetings with all the women I encountered in the field during these fifteen years”, recognizes the one who is easily spotted by her high stature in demonstrations. Sunday June 23, once again, she was at the head of the Parisian procession against the far right, at the call of many feminist organizations.
A craftswoman of the constitutionalization of abortion
On the evening of June 9, after Emmanuel Macron announced the dissolution of the National Assembly, she clung to this thought: fortunately, voluntary termination of pregnancy (IVG) is now in the Constitution, thanks to the vote of the Congress in Versailles on March 4. From the galleries of the Senate or the Assembly, she followed all the debates.
For this mother of a teenager, who herself had an abortion and “can’t imagine a society without this choice”, the fight against women’s rights and abortion is at the heart of the history of the far right, despite its recent reversals. Even if Marine Le Pen voted in favor of constitutionalization, she does not forget her positions against “Comfortable abortion” and his opposition to the extension of deadlines.
An intersectional feminist
His five years of presidency are marked by positions taken in favor of the rights of LGBTQIA + people, “inseparable from women’s rights”. The criticism has sometimes been fierce, as in the summer of 2022, when a Planning poster depicting a pregnant transgender man was released. At the time, elected officials from the right and far right had called for a reduction in public subsidies allocated to Planning. RN MP Laure Lavalette had castigated “highly subsidized activists who only seek to spread their grotesque and lying ideology”.
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