ABSTRACT
The existence of these laws reflects the extent to which reform of legislation about women’s sexual rights had elicited widespread popular support in France by the mid-1960s. This is not to say that such support was (or subsequently became) total. Numerous anti-abortion groups exist in France (e.g. SOS ToutPetits and Laissez-les Vivre), and commandostyle attacks on abortion clinics (by groups such as Trève de Dieu), have proliferated in the 1990s.
