Family Planning in Strasbourg tagged after the constitutionalization of the freedom to abort

After the inclusion of voluntary termination of pregnancy (IVG) in the Constitution, the words “Assassin’s plan” were tagged on the front of the Planned Parenthood in Strasbourg, an AFP journalist noted on Tuesday March 5.

“We will file a complaint, just as we have done previously, this is not the first attack of this type unfortunatelyreacted 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.” The premises had already been targeted several times in March 2023 by tags opposing the right to abortion.

“A guilty message”

The tag was the subject of immediate condemnation from the European Community of Alsace (CEA), the main partner of Family Planning in the department. “It’s a real attack against Planning, against abortion”lamented Nicolas Matt, vice-president of the CEA in charge of youth, denouncing a “heinous 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.

France on Monday became the first country in the world to explicitly include in its Constitution the freedom to resort to abortion, after very broad approval from Parliament meeting in Congress at the Palace of Versailles.