The day after the inclusion of the freedom to have recourse to a voluntary termination of pregnancy (IVG) in the Constitution, the words “Planning assassin” were sprayed on the front of the Strasbourg Family Planning center, noted on Tuesday March 5, a journalist from Agence France-Presse. “We are going to file a complaint, just as we have done previously, this is not the first attack of this type unfortunately,” reacted Claire Riffel, employee of Family Planning.
“The question of the impact on our audience bothers us, the message is placed in a place where we come to seek support and an absence of judgment. This contravenes the possibility for people to come and find this resource place,” she added. The tag was the subject of immediate condemnation from the European Community of Alsace, the main partner of Family Planning in the department.
“It’s a real attack against Planning, against abortion,” lamented its vice-president in charge of youth, Nicolas Matt, denouncing an “odious act”. “It’s a guilt-inducing message, we have to think about the young girls who are going to come here, who are already going through psychologically difficult processes,” he continued, before adding: “With the registration of abortion in the Constitution, even if it is a considerable step forward, it is a right for which we will have to continue to fight. »
France on Monday became the first country in the world to include the guaranteed freedom of women to have recourse to a voluntary termination of pregnancy in its Constitution, after very broad approval from Parliament meeting in Congress at the Palace of Versailles. But the right to voluntary termination of pregnancy remains “in danger” and “at the mercy of those who decide”, warned the Prime Minister, Gabriel Attal, to parliamentarians.
The premises of Family Planning in Strasbourg had already been targeted on several occasions in March 2023 by tags opposing the right to abortion.
