France passes law sanctioning specious anti-abortion websites
The French parliament on Thursday approved legislation that allows prison terms and fines to be handed against those involved in creating anti-abortion websites that imitate official information sites to dissuade women from terminating their pregnancy.
FranceFrance's parliament has approved a bill criminalizing websites that carry purposely false information with the aim of dissuading women from having abortions, reports The Oklahoman.
The lower house of parliament, dominated by a socialist majority, passed the measure on Thursday with a show of hands.
France's minister for women's rights, Laurence Rossignol, says the law targets anti-abortion organizations that are "behind websites imitating the state websites" and carrying information that appears to be of an official nature.
It provides for a penalty of up to two years in prison and a 30,000-euro fine.
Rossignol says anti-abortion activists can freely express their views as long as they "sincerely say who they are, what they do and what they want."
