Right to abortion: 250 people demonstrating in the streets of Caen
By Writing Caen
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Tuesday, June 28, 2022 at Caen (Calvados), the Women’s Rights Collective organized a rally for the right to abortion. a demonstration that echoes the revocation by the Supreme Court of the United States, Friday, June 24, of the right to abortion at the federal level.
At 6 p.m., on Place Bouchard, about 250 people were gathered.
“It’s a setback of 50 years”
In the crowd, Séverine, an activist at Dare feminism in Caen for 10 years, were present. As it was “in 2014, when the Spanish government was planning a major rollback on abortion, but it was stopped. With each major crisis, women’s rights are in retreat. In the United States, it is a setback of 50 years. »
We are not saying that it will never happen to us. We see the arrival in the National Assembly of 89 deputies from the National Rally which, to say the least, is ambiguous on the right to abortion.
” It is scary “
Still in the rally, Cassandre, 13, participated in her first demonstration: “It is scary to see that women are fighting so much for abortion and that it can go away so quickly. On the impression of going back, ”she considers.
At first static, the movement then took to downtown Caen with cries of slogans or songs.
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