the Secretary of State defends “the right of women to dispose of their bodies”

Marlène Schiappa, Secretary of State to the Prime Minister, in charge of the Social and Solidarity Economy and Associative Life, speaks, Saturday April 1, on the cover and the interview she gave to the magazine Playboy, in the edition of the magazine to be published on April 6. While his entourage, who confirmed to franceinfo this information from the newspaper The Parisianboasts a “disruptive communication”, this news is not unanimous in the entourage of the head of state.

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“Defending the right of women to dispose of their bodies is everywhere and all the time”, attacked Marlène Schiappa, on Twitter. “In France, women are free. No offense to retrogrades and hypocrites”, she added.

The same day, the spokeswoman for the Renaissance group in the National Assembly, Prisca Thévenot, also defended the initiative of the Secretary of State. “It’s not about posing nude but about talking about important topics”she estimated at the microphone of franceinfo, judging “Important to address these topics” in a magazine that is not “not known for promoting the subject of women’s rights and their relationship to the body”.