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My Point of View: An Outrageous Affair
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To the Presiding Judge of the 26th Chamber:Having been informed by Marie Bataille of the situation which, after two years of proceedings, will take her before the criminal court, I wish to convey to you my point of view about this affair.For a long time I have been an activist for voluntary motherhood. I believe that a woman has the right to choose to have or to not have a child, and in the first case, to choose the father of her child. Therefore I welcomed the recent law on abortion and before that, the 1972 law on filiation, which requires that the child be recognized in its biologic and sociologic reality....
Title: My Point of View: An Outrageous Affair
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To the Presiding Judge of the 26th Chamber:Having been informed by Marie Bataille of the situation which, after two years of proceedings, will take her before the criminal court, I wish to convey to you my point of view about this affair.
For a long time I have been an activist for voluntary motherhood.
I believe that a woman has the right to choose to have or to not have a child, and in the first case, to choose the father of her child.
Therefore I welcomed the recent law on abortion and before that, the 1972 law on filiation, which requires that the child be recognized in its biologic and sociologic reality.
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