Unbelievable: French Government Votes to Ban Pro-Life Websites, but Not Jihadist Ones

Pete Baklinski : Dec 5, 2016
LifeSiteNews.com

France, where abortion is 100 percent state-funded during the first 12 weeks of gestation, has a long history of criminalizing activities aimed at convincing pregnant women to keep their pre-born babies.

(Paris, France) [LifeSiteNews]—The socialist government of France passed a bill after one day's debate that criminalizes websites that might dissuade women from abortion. (Photo: French President François Hollande/Shutterstock/via LifeSiteNews.com)

The "digital interference" bill is aimed at cracking down on French websites that would, in the words of the bill, "deliberately mislead, intimidate and/or exert psychological or moral pressure to discourage recourse to abortion."

Convicted website owners could face two years in prison and fines up to 30,000 euros ($31,799 USD).

The majority left voted in a block for the bill while the minority right formed a block against it.

Bruno Retailleau, who heads the Republicans party group in the Senate, told French radio Thursday that the bill "is totally against freedom of expression," adding that it contradicts the 1975 law that legalized abortion and which called for women to be informed of alternatives.

Christian Democratic Party member Jean-Frederic Poisson also blasted the bill on Twitter for what he saw as the government's double standard in banning sites that propose "alternatives" to abortion but not "jihadist websites."

Two of the country's leading prelates have strongly condemned the bill, with Cardinal André Vingt-Trois of Paris criticizing the French government for...

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