Tens of thousands took to the
streets in Paris and Bordeaux Sunday
to demonstrate for what protesters
called “traditional family values” and
against assisted pregnancies and
surrogacy.
The demonstrations were organised
by the “Manif pour Tous” (“Protest
for Everyone”) group that waged an
ultimately unsuccessful grassroots
movement against the adoption of
same-sex marriage in France last
year.
Their target this time is medically
assisted procreation techniques for
lesbian couples, and surrogacy,
which must be “fought at all costs,”
according to the group’s president
Ludovine de la Rochere.
The group says they are hoping for a
“slightly better” turnout than for
their last protest in February, which
attracted around 100,000 people
according to police.
The march began under grey skies
and cool conditions under the
watchful eye of some 1,000 police.
Previous marches have seen isolated
acts of violences and arrests.
Seeking to calm passions ahead of
the rally, Prime Minister Manuel
Valls stressed that surrogacy “is and
will remain banned in France”.
But this did not seem to pacify the
marchers who carried banners
reading: “No to surrogate mothers”
and “A woman is not a baby-
machine”.
One pensioner told AFP: “The next
stage will be to put children on
shop shelves and we will choose the
ones we like.”
Surrogacy is a form of
“industrialisation” and “modern
slavery,” judged another protester,
30-year-old Thibault.
Manif pour Tous mounted a vigorous
campaign against same-sex marriage
— at one point claiming to have
brought 1.4 million on the streets of
Paris. But President Francois
Hollande defied the protests and in
April last year France became the
14th country worldwide to legalise
same-sex marriage.
An Ifop poll for the Atlantico website
on Sunday showed that less than a
third (31 percent) of French people
were behind the values of the
demonstration.
And the “All Out” gay rights
organisation has called for a
counter-demonstration “for equality
of all couples and families”.
An Internet petition it launched
attracted more than 200,000
signatures by early Sunday.
However its counter-demonstration
drew only a few hundred people
under the rain in a central Paris
square, Place de la Republique.
www.vanguardngr.com/2014/10/ten-thousands-march-procreation-lesbian-couplessurrogacy/

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