On Instagram, on January 24, Sophie Marceau took a strong position against the comments made by the President of the Senate Gérard Larcher, who opposed the constitutionalization of voluntary termination of pregnancy. The actress revealed by The party And The student did not hesitate to attack virulently the person responsible for ensuring the presidential interim in an emergency: “Of course abortion is threatened! Like the fate of women who cannot have recourse to it and whom you put in danger of death. You have nothing to do with the fate of women, in truth. You represent patriarchy in all its splendor: smug, retrograde and hypocritical. You shame our French society. As long as there are men like you, we will all be in danger.” she said.
Guest of What era this Saturday, February 3 to react to the controversy that it triggered, even though the constitutionalization of abortion was voted on and validated by Parliament in the middle of the week, Gérard Larcher reacted to the vehement comments made by the favorite actress the French : “I would shame our French society (…) Let her come with me to see in what conditions, sometimes, it is done!” he got annoyed at first. And to continue: “I was president of a local hospital in Rambouillet, I have a service open seven days a week, I welcomed women in very difficult situations, who were trying to escape pressure (…) C It’s always a very difficult decision, often it’s moments of fragility (…) We have to support them (…) The conditions of a woman in this reception are something essential, and that is my fight !”
Jimmy Mohamed calls for “securing abortion” in the face of the rise of the far right
Emergency doctor Jimmy Mohamed wanted to confirm the comments made by the President of the Senate, recalling that voluntary terminations of pregnancies most often resulted from trauma: “Abortion is not a chance, but it is a chance to be able to do it in France. As you rightly say, it is sometimes the failure of contraception, of rape (…) of any incident. And it’s not a pleasant moment. But we’re lucky to be able to do it.” did he declare. Before however agreeing with Sophie Marceau by tempering her opinion: “When we look a little further, when we see what is happening in particular in Europe, that little by little governments are tilting towards the extreme right, that they are openly opposed to abortion, we can say that it might be time to make it safer.”