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Roger-Viollet | 341485 | First demonstration counting 5,000 to 10,000 people, denouncing the horror of illegal abortions and claiming the right to abortion and contraception. Paris, on November 20, 1971. | © Catherine Deudon / Roger-Viollet
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First demonstration counting 5,000 to 10,000 people, denouncing the horror of illegal abortions and [...]
Roger-Viollet | 526204 | First demonstration counting 5,000 to 10,000 people, denouncing the horror of illegal abortions and claiming the right to abortion and contraception. Paris, on November 20, 1971. | © Catherine Deudon / Roger-Viollet
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First demonstration counting 5,000 to 10,000 people, denouncing the horror of illegal abortions and [...]
Roger-Viollet | 856661 | Gathering for free abortion and contraception, in front of the Lariboisière hospital (Xth arrondissement).Paris, January 20th, 1979. Photograph by Janine Niepce (1921-2007). | © Janine Niepce / Roger-Viollet
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Gathering for free abortion and contraception, in front of the Lariboisière hospital (Xth [...]
Roger-Viollet | 824636 | Women's march for birth control and abortion rights. Paris, 1974. Photograph by Janine Niepce (1921-2007). | © Janine Niepce / Roger-Viollet
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Women's march for birth control and abortion rights. Paris, 1974. Photograph by Janine Niepce [...]
Roger-Viollet | 1031196 | Women's march for birth control and abortion rights. Paris, 1973. Photograph by Janine Niepce (1921-2007). | © Janine Niepce / Roger-Viollet
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Women's march for birth control and abortion rights. Paris, 1973. Photograph by Janine Niepce [...]
Roger-Viollet | 1383390 | March for the right to abortion and the consolidation of the Veil law. Activists from the  Choisir  group, at a congress, greet the procession. Paris (France), October 6, 1979. Photograph by Catherine Deudon. | © Catherine Deudon / Roger-Viollet
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March for the right to abortion and the consolidation of the Veil law. Activists from the "Choisir" [...]
Roger-Viollet | 912229 | 50 000 femmes dans la rue pour la liberté de l'avortement et le soutien de la loi Veil. Photographie de Catherine Deudon (née en 1940), octobre 1979. Paris, Bibliothèque Marguerite Durand. | © Catherine Deudon / Bibliothèque Marguerite Durand / Roger-Viollet
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50 000 femmes dans la rue pour la liberté de l'avortement et le soutien de la loi Veil. [...]
Roger-Viollet | 1383471 | Demonstration for the right to abortion and its reimbursement which gathered more than 50 000 women and men in the street. Paris, October 23, 1982. Photograph by Catherine Deudon. | © Catherine Deudon / Roger-Viollet
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Demonstration for the right to abortion and its reimbursement which gathered more than 50 000 women [...]
Roger-Viollet | 1383473 | Planned Parenthood activists during the demonstration for the reimbursement of abortion (IVG, Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy). On their banner, the slogan:  A child if I want, when I want . Paris, October 23, 1982. Photograph by Catherine Deudon. | © Catherine Deudon / Roger-Viollet
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Planned Parenthood activists during the demonstration for the reimbursement of abortion (IVG, [...]
Roger-Viollet | 1383479 | Demonstration for the reimbursement of abortion ( IVG, Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy) which gathered more than 50 000 women and men in the street. Paris, October 23, 1982. Photograph by Catherine Deudon. | © Catherine Deudon / Roger-Viollet
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Demonstration for the reimbursement of abortion ( IVG, Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy) which [...]
Roger-Viollet | 1383485 | Demonstration for the reimbursement of abortion (IVG, voluntary interruption of pregnancy). Raised fist and symbol of the female sex. Paris, October 23, 1982. Photograph by Catherine Deudon. | © Catherine Deudon / Roger-Viollet
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Demonstration for the reimbursement of abortion (IVG, voluntary interruption of pregnancy). Raised [...]
Roger-Viollet | 1412006 | Colloque  Avortement, Droit de choisir et Santé  au Sénat. Le dos du tee-shirt de Caroline Fourest (née en 1975), journaliste, essayiste et réalisatrice française (prochoix et co-auteur avec Fiametta Venner de livres  l'extrême droite et les femmes ). Paris, 5 janvier 2001. | © Catherine Deudon / Roger-Viollet
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Colloque "Avortement, Droit de choisir et Santé" au Sénat. Le dos du tee-shirt de Caroline Fourest [...]
Roger-Viollet | 1383488 | Demonstration for the right to abortion and its reimbursement by the Sécurité sociale. Profusion of banners. Paris, October 23, 1982. Photograph by Catherine Deudon. | © Catherine Deudon / Roger-Viollet
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Demonstration for the right to abortion and its reimbursement by the Sécurité sociale. Profusion of [...]
Roger-Viollet | 1383489 | Nicole Fernandez Ferrer, archivist, and Claire Atherton (born in 1963), video editor, during the demonstration for the reimbursement of the abortion (IVG, Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy). Paris, October 23, 1982. Photograph by Catherine Deudon. | © Catherine Deudon / Roger-Viollet
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Nicole Fernandez Ferrer, archivist, and Claire Atherton (born in 1963), video editor, during the [...]
Roger-Viollet | 1411867 |  20 ans ça se fête ! . Fête des 20 ans du droit des femmes à l'avortement. Janvier 1975-Janvier 1995. L'intervenante Lydie Dooh Bunya (née en 1933), journaliste, écrivaine et féministe camerounaise agissant pour l'association qui lutte contre les mutilations sexuelles infligées aux femmes. Paris, 28 janvier 1995. | © Catherine Deudon / Roger-Viollet
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"20 ans ça se fête !". Fête des 20 ans du droit des femmes à l'avortement. Janvier 1975-Janvier [...]
Roger-Viollet | 911271 | Catherine Valabrègue, co-founder of the Family Planning. Photograph by Janine Niepce (1921-2007). | © Janine Niepce / Roger-Viollet
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Catherine Valabrègue, co-founder of the Family Planning. Photograph by Janine Niepce (1921-2007).
Roger-Viollet | 532278 | Consultation at the Family Planning. Paris, 1969. Photograph by Janine Niepce (1921-2007) | © Janine Niepce / Roger-Viollet
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Consultation at the Family Planning. Paris, 1969. Photograph by Janine Niepce (1921-2007)
Roger-Viollet | 946931 | Young woman taking the contraceptive pill. Paris, 1967. Photograph by Janine Niepce (1921-2007). | © Janine Niepce / Roger-Viollet
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Young woman taking the contraceptive pill. Paris, 1967. Photograph by Janine Niepce (1921-2007).
Roger-Viollet | 238372 | First demonstration counting 5,000 to 10,000 people, denouncing the horror of illegal abortions and claiming the right to abortion and contraception. Paris, on November 20, 1971. | © Catherine Deudon / Roger-Viollet
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First demonstration counting 5,000 to 10,000 people, denouncing the horror of illegal abortions and [...]
Roger-Viollet | 192990 | Demonstration of the Women's liberation movement and the  Mouvement de Libération de l'avortement et de la contraception . Paris, May 1st, 1974. Photograph by Janine Niepce (1921-2007). | © Janine Niepce / Roger-Viollet
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Demonstration of the Women's liberation movement and the "Mouvement de Libération de l'avortement [...]
Roger-Viollet | 942368 | Demonstration for the freedom of abortion and of birth control, in front of Lariboisière hospital. Paris (Xth arrondissement), January 20th, 1979. Photograph by Janine Niepce (1921-2007). | © Janine Niepce / Roger-Viollet
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Demonstration for the freedom of abortion and of birth control, in front of Lariboisière hospital. [...]
Roger-Viollet | 961305 | Instructor from the family planning giving a sex education lesson in a school in the suburbs of Paris, 1973. Photograph by Janine Niepce (1921-2007). | © Janine Niepce / Roger-Viollet
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Instructor from the family planning giving a sex education lesson in a school in the suburbs of [...]
Roger-Viollet | 1383388 | March for the right to abortion and the consolidation of the Veil law. Paris (France), October 6, 1979. Photograph by Catherine Deudon. | © Catherine Deudon / Roger-Viollet
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March for the right to abortion and the consolidation of the Veil law. Paris (France), October 6, [...]
Roger-Viollet | 487007 | Demonstration for the freedom of abortion. Paris, on October 6, 1979. Photograph by Janine Niepce (1921-2007). | © Janine Niepce / Roger-Viollet
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Demonstration for the freedom of abortion. Paris, on October 6, 1979. Photograph by Janine Niepce [...]
Roger-Viollet | 1383350 | Demonstration against Mother's Day, compulsory motherhood and the abortion ban. Demonstrators walk in front of a poster of Federico Fellini's film  Roma . Paris (France), June 28, 1972. Photograph by Catherine Deudon. | © Catherine Deudon / Roger-Viollet
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Demonstration against Mother's Day, compulsory motherhood and the abortion ban. Demonstrators walk [...]
Roger-Viollet | 717090 | Demonstration against rape and for free contraception. Paris, on March 4, 1978. Photograph by Janine Niepce (1921-2007). | © Janine Niepce / Roger-Viollet
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Demonstration against rape and for free contraception. Paris, on March 4, 1978. Photograph by [...]
Roger-Viollet | 863516 | March for free abortion and birth control, supporting the Veil law, where 50 000 women participated. Paris, on October 6, 1979. Photograph by Catherine Deudon (born in 1940). Paris, Bibliothèque Marguerite Durand. | © Catherine Deudon / Bibliothèque Marguerite Durand / Roger-Viollet
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March for free abortion and birth control, supporting the Veil law, where 50 000 women [...]
Roger-Viollet | 1383507 | International colloquium  Feminism and Socialism  organised by the feminist association  Choisir la cause des femmes  at UNESCO. Paris (France), October 1983. Photograph by Catherine Deudon. | © Catherine Deudon / Roger-Viollet
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International colloquium "Feminism and Socialism" organised by the feminist association "Choisir la [...]
Roger-Viollet | 260864 | March for free abortion and birth control, supporting the Veil law, where 50 000 women participated. Paris, on October 6, 1979. Photograph by Catherine Deudon (born in 1940). Paris, Bibliothèque Marguerite Durand. | © Catherine Deudon / Bibliothèque Marguerite Durand / Roger-Viollet
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March for free abortion and birth control, supporting the Veil law, where 50 000 women [...]
Roger-Viollet | 370458 | Catherine Valabrègue greeting a woman at the French Movement for Family Planning. Paris, 1960's. Photograph by Janine Niepce (1921-2007). | © Janine Niepce / Roger-Viollet
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Catherine Valabrègue greeting a woman at the French Movement for Family Planning. Paris, 1960's. [...]
Roger-Viollet | 899792 | Feminist demonstration for the freedom of birth control and abortion. Bastille district. Paris, 1973. Photograph by Janine Niepce (1921-2007). | © Janine Niepce / Roger-Viollet
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Feminist demonstration for the freedom of birth control and abortion. Bastille district. Paris, [...]
Roger-Viollet | 900843 | Feminist demonstration for the freedom of birth control and abortion. Paris, 1979. Photograph by Janine Niepce (1921-2007). | © Janine Niepce / Roger-Viollet
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Feminist demonstration for the freedom of birth control and abortion. Paris, 1979. Photograph by [...]
Roger-Viollet | 1383392 | March for the right to abortion and the consolidation of the Veil law. A group of high school girls demonstrating. Paris (France), October 6, 1979. Photograph by Catherine Deudon. | © Catherine Deudon / Roger-Viollet
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March for the right to abortion and the consolidation of the Veil law. A group of high school girls [...]
Roger-Viollet | 1383393 | March for the right to abortion and the consolidation of the Veil law. A group of P.S. (Socialist Party) activists take part in the march. Paris (France), October 6, 1979. Photograph by Catherine Deudon. | © Catherine Deudon / Roger-Viollet
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March for the right to abortion and the consolidation of the Veil law. A group of P.S. (Socialist [...]
Roger-Viollet | 1383394 | March for the right to abortion and the consolidation of the Veil law. Paris (France), October 6, 1979. Photograph by Catherine Deudon. | © Catherine Deudon / Roger-Viollet
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March for the right to abortion and the consolidation of the Veil law. Paris (France), October 6, [...]
Roger-Viollet | 1383481 | Demonstration for the reimbursement of abortion (IVG, Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy) by the Sécurité sociale. Banner of the C.F.D.T. (French Democratic Confederation of Labour). Paris, October 23, 1982. Photograph by Catherine Deudon. | © Catherine Deudon / Roger-Viollet
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Demonstration for the reimbursement of abortion (IVG, Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy) by the [...]
Roger-Viollet | 1383475 | Activists from the Maison des Femmes during the demonstration for the reimbursement of abortion (IVG, Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy). Paris, October 23, 1982. Photograph by Catherine Deudon. | © Catherine Deudon / Roger-Viollet
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Activists from the Maison des Femmes during the demonstration for the reimbursement of abortion [...]
Roger-Viollet | 1383360 | Poster for the right to abortion and freedom of contraception. Solidarity action with striking women in Thionville. Drawing by Chantal Thomas. Rue Jacquier, Paris (France), June 25, 1972. Photograph by Catherine Deudon. | © Catherine Deudon / Roger-Viollet
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Poster for the right to abortion and freedom of contraception. Solidarity action with striking [...]
Roger-Viollet | 1383387 | March for the right to abortion and the consolidation of the Veil law. Paris (France), October 6, 1979. Photograph by Catherine Deudon. | © Catherine Deudon / Roger-Viollet
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March for the right to abortion and the consolidation of the Veil law. Paris (France), October 6, [...]
Roger-Viollet | 1383329 | First demonstration of 5,000 to 10,000 people to demand the right to abortion. Paris (France), November 20, 1971. Photograph by Catherine Deudon. | © Catherine Deudon / Roger-Viollet
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First demonstration of 5,000 to 10,000 people to demand the right to abortion. Paris (France), [...]
Roger-Viollet | 1383331 | Demonstration to demand the right to abortion and contraception. On a banner, the slogan  Enfants désirés, enfants aimés  (Desired children, beloved children). Paris (France), November 20, 1971. Photograph by Catherine Deudon. | © Catherine Deudon / Roger-Viollet
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Demonstration to demand the right to abortion and contraception. On a banner, the slogan "Enfants [...]
Roger-Viollet | 1372347 | Manifestation pour le Droit à l’avortement et la liberté des femmes (Arrivée aux Champs de Mars). De drte à gche: les féministes Huguette Bouchardeau (née en 1935), femme politique française ave Luce Irigaray (née en 1930), psychanaliste française et Oritelle Bonis (Histoires d’Elles). Paris, 6 octobre 1979. | © Catherine Deudon / Roger-Viollet
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Manifestation pour le Droit à l’avortement et la liberté des femmes (Arrivée aux Champs de Mars). [...]
Roger-Viollet | 864085 | Demonstration in front of the Lariboisière hospital for the liberty of women concerning abortion and contraception. Paris, 1979. Photograph by Janine Niepce (1921-2007). | © Janine Niepce / Roger-Viollet
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Demonstration in front of the Lariboisière hospital for the liberty of women concerning abortion [...]
Roger-Viollet | 818149 | First demonstration counting 5,000 to 10,000 people, denouncing the horror of illegal abortions and claiming the right to abortion and contraception. Paris, on November 20, 1971. | © Catherine Deudon / Roger-Viollet
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First demonstration counting 5,000 to 10,000 people, denouncing the horror of illegal abortions and [...]
Roger-Viollet | 588095 | Demonstration of the  MLAC  (Free Abortion and Contraception Movement) for the freedom of abortion. Bastille district. Paris, June 16, 1973. Photograph by Janine Niepce (1921-2007). | © Janine Niepce / Roger-Viollet
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Demonstration of the "MLAC" (Free Abortion and Contraception Movement) for the freedom of abortion. [...]
Roger-Viollet | 384265 | Marche du 6 Octobre 1979 pour l'avortement et la contraception libres et gratuits, en soutien à la loi Veil, à laquelle participèrent 50 000 femmes. Paris, 1979. Photographie de Catherine Deudon (née en 1940). Paris, Bibliothèque Marguerite Durand. | © Catherine Deudon / Bibliothèque Marguerite Durand / Roger-Viollet
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Marche du 6 Octobre 1979 pour l'avortement et la contraception libres et gratuits, en soutien à la [...]
Roger-Viollet | 612480 | March for free abortion and birth control, supporting the Veil law, where 50 000 women participated. Paris, on October 6, 1979. Photograph by Catherine Deudon (born in 1940). Paris, Bibliothèque Marguerite Durand. | © Catherine Deudon / Bibliothèque Marguerite Durand / Roger-Viollet
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March for free abortion and birth control, supporting the Veil law, where 50 000 women [...]
Roger-Viollet | 303151 | Demonstration for the freedom of birth control in front of Lariboisière Hospital. Paris (Xth arrondissement), January 20th, 1979. Photograph by Janine Niepce (1921-2007). | © Janine Niepce / Roger-Viollet
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Demonstration for the freedom of birth control in front of Lariboisière Hospital. Paris (Xth [...]
Roger-Viollet | 220763 | Demonstration for the freedom of abortion and of birth control, in front of Lariboisière hospital. Paris (Xth arrondissement), January 20th, 1979. Photograph by Janine Niepce (1921-2007). | © Janine Niepce / Roger-Viollet
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Demonstration for the freedom of abortion and of birth control, in front of Lariboisière hospital. [...]
Roger-Viollet | 199253 | Demonstration for  Freedom, autonomy, dignity, equality and solidarity  organised by the French association for women's rights  Collectif droits des femmes . Paris, January 15, 2000. | © Catherine Deudon / Roger-Viollet
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Demonstration for "Freedom, autonomy, dignity, equality and solidarity" organised by the French [...]