Last weekend 25 000 French pro-lifers marched peacefully in Paris in opposition to legal abortion in that country. The demonstrators called upon their countrymen to reflect upon the disastrous result of 35 years of legal abortion: the unspeakable sufferings of millions of women, and the blatant injustice towards millions of our unborn brothers and sisters.
Despite having one of the very highest contraception rates in the world, France today has the second highest abortion rate in Western Europe, second only to Sweden – a situation even the sponsor of France’s 1975 abortion legalisation law, Simone Veil, has deemed “distressing”.
Culture, life and family reporting service, LifeSiteNews reports that this year's march saw a sharp rise in the number of demonstrators, up from 15,000 in 2009.
According to LSN, a dozen international delegations took part in the march, including a representative from the U.K. Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) and Dolores Meehan, co-founder of the San Francisco Walk for Life.
"Future generations of Europeans will be able to bring about a culture of life thanks to your courage to come and publicly say NO to abortion," Meehan told the demonstrators.
French activists describe the way forward as one of compassion and justice: compassion by providing expectant mothers with the real choice, that of preserving their unborn life; and justice with the comprehensive abolition of abortion.
Australian activists should be encouraged to persist with peaceful marches as a means of mobilising public opposition to legal abortion.
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