“Not moral”, these are the terms with which Louis Fouché, an anti-vaccine activist, described Voluntary Pregnancy Interruption (IVG) during a live of more than three and a half hours on the activist’s youtube channel. -vaccine Hayssam Hoballah and in the company of journalist and essayist Jean Robin.

This live took place on March 6, 2021 but it was two months later that it triggered a wave of reactions on Twitter. A user cuts it into several two-minute sections to post it on May 19. Three of these sections, which explode the words of Louis Fouché on abortion, then provoke very many reactions.

The “non-solution” of abortion is still acceptable according to him, for example for a Kosovar prostitute …
Then there is “the old road of abortion which is in its 14th”.
participate in abortion? no, we can go too!
⬇️ pic.twitter.com/cIhFe4vHA8

– Alexander Samuel (@AlexSamTG) May 19, 2021

Founder of the Reinfo Covid site, Louis Fouché is a resuscitator still stationed in Marseille. He made himself known at the start of the Covid epidemic for his positions: according to him, RNA vaccines do not work and could even make infertile. These theories are not based on any scientific study.

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Launching a hashtag

The first tweet that uses the #Let usLUterus, it’s this one: a woman recounts her abortion which took place in the summer of 2001 (and not 2021, as she rectifies in another tweet).

#Let usLUterus
Small My Life Thread

I had an abortion in the summer of 2021, at not quite 21.

I had sex education, I know the cycles, I know the means of contraception, but here it is, I found myself pregnant. The progenitor was not my

– Amandine Pouette ???? (@ Twinnette75) May 21, 2021

At the beginning and the end of her testimony, this woman now in her forties uses the hashtag to encourage her to continue fighting “against the obscurantists who claim to […] to know better than us what is good for us ”.

contraception is only 100% effective. No. Strictly none. Our lives mean that sometimes pregnancy is not the right option for us. These reasons are up to us, they should not be judged. And two a priori identical situations can have consequences

– Amandine Pouette ???? (@ Twinnette75) May 21, 2021

A shower of testimonies

After her very popular thread, many other women also tell their story.

In any case …. the obvious. I CANNOT keep it.
I don’t like my job. That of darling either. We want to go back to school. We want love to give but above all the means to raise. May our child see us happy to work every day and not to suffer.

– puer & pacifier (@PuerSucette) May 22, 2021

2/2 never there by their male organs. Believe me. No woman does this for fun! And even so what can it do to you? It’s still their body. They do what they want.

– puer & pacifier (@PuerSucette) May 21, 2021

Right to dispose of one’s body

All these testimonies share the same objective: to show that the right to abortion is a necessity.

I had my bb qd I wanted at the time which seemed to me the most suitable for me. And I had an abortion afterwards because I didn’t want 3. No regrets, no questions. Qd I want a baby I stop contraception, if it has an accident of contraception bah c I didn’t want it.

– wicked mimosa (@ petitdoudou33) May 12, 2021

I went there. Twice. Not by consequence, “just” by hyperfertility. Once on the pill, once on the IUD. No regrets, no pride either. Just relief to have been able to choose.#Let usLUterus https://t.co/aDFoYa55wd

– Mousse666 (@ Mousse6661) May 22, 2021

If many women feed this hashtag, they are also supported by men who share it so that it gains visibility.

Well this hashtag does not concern me directly but I would like it to be in trending so I share it. Pseudo-scientist Dr. Louis Fouché and 3 of his acolytes think they have their say on abortion. #Let usLUterus # PseudoScienceFouché https://t.co/e054g21zkc

– Lonni Besançon ???????? ???????? (@lonnibesancon) May 20, 2021

In France, the HAS perpetuated in April the extension of the period for the medical abortion set up during the first confinement. It is therefore possible to proceed with a medical abortion up to 9 weeks of amenorrhea.