PARIS – Around 42,000 protesters took to the streets in the French capital peacefully demonstrating against a draft law allowing lesbians and single women to conceive children with medical assistance, according to the police.
The bioethics law, which has cleared its first reading in the parliament, would lift the current restriction limiting in vitro fertilization (IVF) to heterosexual couples.
For some in President Emmanuel Macron’s governing party, the bill revived memories of the disruptive and sometimes violent protests against his predecessor Francois Hollande’s “Marriage For All” law which legalized gay unions.
Those protests peaked in January 2013 with a demonstration attended by thousands of people.
Remnants of the same “Demonstrations for All” movement, founded in opposition to Hollande’s law, took part in Sunday’s march.(Reuters)
