The French government has said there is a “general mobilisation” against anti-abortion activism following a spate of attacks against premises belonging to pro-choice organisations,

The Minister Delegate for Gender Equality, Aurore Bergé, spoke in the National Assembly last week, denouncing groups that never accepted the ‘right’ to abortion enshrined in the constitution in 2024.

“They continue to vandalise, threaten, intimidate, fund, and attempt to mislead young women who simply wish to access their freedom, now constitutionally guaranteed,” she said.

There was, she added, a “general mobilisation” for “our freedoms, our rights, our choices, to access abortion everywhere in the territory, support for our associations and a very clear fight against those who prefer to disinform, disorient, manipulate and who in France must not be able to win.”

Alongside providing protection for facilities, Bergé also said that resources allocated to pro-abortion associations have more than tripled over the past ten years.

French MP Sandra Regol said that Family Planning centers had been attacked six times in the last five years, including a center in Strasbourg which was covered with graffiti saying “Planning assassin.”