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French Government Votes to Ban Pro-Life Websites
LifeSite News ^ | 12/2/16 | Pete Baklinski

Posted on 12/04/2016 4:19:52 PM PST by marshmallow

PARIS, December 2, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) --The socialist government of France passed a bill after one day's debate that criminalizes websites that might dissuade women from abortion.

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.”

(Excerpt) Read more at lifesitenews.com ...


TOPICS: Current Events; Moral Issues; Religion & Culture; Religion & Politics
KEYWORDS: abortion; digitalinterference; france; prolife; websites
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1 posted on 12/04/2016 4:19:52 PM PST by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow

Sick.


2 posted on 12/04/2016 4:20:46 PM PST by Williams (Trump You Magnificent Bastard!)
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To: Williams

It’s evil to stop murder. It’s a right! /s


3 posted on 12/04/2016 4:22:04 PM PST by D Rider
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To: marshmallow

stupid frogs


4 posted on 12/04/2016 4:22:48 PM PST by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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To: marshmallow

Crazy and foolish. Next it will be against French Law to declare oneself a ‘Happy Person’.
“Please stop! How do you think that makes an unhappy person feel, proclaiming that your ‘Happy’, just like that?”


5 posted on 12/04/2016 4:23:58 PM PST by lee martell
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To: marshmallow

France is one of the few nations I despise.


6 posted on 12/04/2016 4:24:19 PM PST by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: marshmallow

How nazi of them.


7 posted on 12/04/2016 4:24:52 PM PST by PROCON (Onto the Great American Rebirth!)
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To: marshmallow

Guess the French don’t have freedom of speech, nor freedom of the press.


8 posted on 12/04/2016 4:25:06 PM PST by adorno (w)
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To: marshmallow

The cancer is Socialism.

The cure is LePen.


9 posted on 12/04/2016 4:25:16 PM PST by VanDeKoik
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To: lee martell
Crazy and foolish. Next it will be against French Law to declare oneself a ‘Happy Person’.

What about the Shiny People?

"I want the shiny people over here, and the happy people over here, okay? I represent angry gun-toting meat-eating f___ing people, all right?"

-Dennis Leary

10 posted on 12/04/2016 4:25:30 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: marshmallow

Terrible.

I was really hoping that the popularity of Le Pen would help restore France’s Catholic heritage. I was clearly too optimistic


11 posted on 12/04/2016 4:25:38 PM PST by surroundedbyblue (Proud to be an Infidel & a deplorable.)
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To: marshmallow; SaveFerris

The march to the rule of the Anti-christ seems to be back on track.


12 posted on 12/04/2016 4:28:42 PM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: marshmallow

Coming the America. Where non-Progressive Liberal sites are considered “fake.”


13 posted on 12/04/2016 4:30:03 PM PST by Theo (FReeping since 1998 ... drain the swamp.)
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To: marshmallow

Plenty of Web hosts outside France. Are they going to try to block them?


14 posted on 12/04/2016 4:30:22 PM PST by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: marshmallow

If I am not mistaken, these are the same guys who banned a video -—— having nothing to do with abortion, by the way —— which merely showed Downs Syndrome children smiling. Why? Because the sight of a lovely, smiling Downs child might trigger feelings of remorse in women who “made another choice”.

I wish I were engaged in satire here, but I am not.

It does not take a genius to detect behind all this, a true, non-metaphorical fiend who hates humanity.


15 posted on 12/04/2016 4:31:19 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o (When truth is outlawed, only outlaws have the truth.)
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To: marshmallow

Free speech and rational thought is the greatest threat to the Left. Once in power they do all they can to restrict speech and regulate thought.


16 posted on 12/04/2016 4:32:49 PM PST by allendale
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To: marshmallow

The devaluation of life epitomized by the abortion culture is part of the devaluation of life evidenced in the shootings and murders in so many abortion-defending areas of our country. In the 1950’s Catholics prayed for the conversion of Russia. Now we need to pray for the conversion of Europe.


17 posted on 12/04/2016 4:35:49 PM PST by Freee-dame (Driain the swamp!)
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To: marshmallow

This is the type of governmental action that produces the exact opposite of what was intended.

That being said, the left’s comfort with censorship is breathtaking.


18 posted on 12/04/2016 4:36:49 PM PST by plymaniac
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To: dfwgator

LOL!


19 posted on 12/04/2016 4:39:22 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (****happy dance**** BIGLY!!!!)
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To: marshmallow

France just went full Nazi. You never go full Nazi.


20 posted on 12/04/2016 4:42:16 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Je Suis Pepe)
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