(28 Sep 2024)
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Paris, France – 28 September 2024
1. Low angle of protesters marching while holding banner with writing (French) “Abortion is a fundamental right”
2. Various of protesters marching
3. SOUNDBITE (French) Talula Rodríguez, 49, protester:
“In France, fortunately, it is enshrined in the Constitution. But we know that when we exert pressure in Europe or in Latin America, we also help all women to say ‘We are not alone.’ We’re all going to fight for rights, rights over our bodies. It’s our choice.”
4. Mid of women holding placard with writing (French) “Let’s abort patriarchy”
5. Close of a placard with writing (English) “No uterus no opinion”
6. Pan right protesters gathered before marching
7. Various of protesters chanting
8. Close-up a sticker with writing (French) “The far-right is an enemy of women”
9. SOUNDBITE (French) Sarah Durocher, president of not-for-profit Family Planning Services organization:
“We have a National Assembly where the number of MPs from the National Rally has doubled. We have a government, some of whose members did not vote for constitutionalization, who attack the rights of trans people in general. It’s a worrying situation. And we don’t want to stagnate. We don’t just want to secure our rights. We want to defend them, we want to make them progress.”
10. Various of protesters marching
STORYLINE:
Hundreds of people came out in Paris on Saturday, marching in support of the right to abortion for women across the world.
The protest, organized by civil society groups to mark International Safe Abortion Day, occurred just six months after France became the first country to explicitly guarantee women’s right to voluntarily terminate a pregnancy by enshrining it in its Constitution.
Among the protesters was a group of Colombian women living in Paris.
“We know that when we exert pressure in Europe or in Latin America, we also help all women to say ‘We are not alone’," said 49 year-old Talula Rodríguez. "We’re all going to fight for rights, rights over our bodies. It’s our choices.”
Abortion in France has been legal since 1975 and enjoys wide support across most of the political spectrum.
Enshrining the right in the Constitution sought to prevent the kind of rollback seen in the United States in recent years.
Still, many in the protest Saturday said the right to abort could never be taken for granted, especially at a time when far-right nationalist parties are gaining influence, including in France and other European countries.
“It’s a worrying situation”, said Sarah Durocher, the president of France’s not-for-profit Family Planning Services organization.
"And we don’t want to stagnate, we don’t just want to secure our rights", she added. We want to defend them, we want to make them progress.”
The protest also called for greater and easier access to abortion in France, denouncing budget cuts, staff reductions and the closure of abortion centres and maternity wards, which they say all contribute to penalizing women.
AP video by Marine Lesprit
Production by Diane Jeantet
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