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Pro-Life Paris

By Meghan Ferrara

f it’s hard for you to imagine 40,000 young people storming Paris to

march for life, there’s a reason for your difficulties. Basically, it’s because you – and the rest of the world -- have the impression that Paris is a left-leaning city where such things simply do not happen.

Why does everyone think this? Because the political Left controls the media which reaches outside France, disagreeable stories like this are simply buried.

But ‘the Truth will out’ as Shakespeare told us. And here, REGINA’s Meghan Ferrara interviews Benjamin Leduc, biologist and pro-life activist, about what really happened in ‘the City of Light’ in January – and just what brave French pro-lifers are up against.

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REGINA: How did you get involved in the pro-life cause?

BENJAMIN: I am a young scientist, a biologist at the University of Iceland. I am the only Catholic in a family of nonbelievers. I often wonder how I came to be such a fierce pro-life advocate.

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