"Hundreds of demonstrators rallied at Place Vauban in Paris on Sunday, opposing abortion and assisted dying legislation as part of the annual March for Life held across France. Footage shows participants marching with French flags and cheering while holding placards reading, 'Suffering can be treated. Life must be protected', 'Babies lives matter?' and 'Euthanasia is a false response to real suffering'. "Abortion is killing unborn life," said a protester. "There are more deaths than births this year in France, for the first time in a very long time. And we wonder if we should accentuate this." Another demonstrator stressed, "We talk about the declining birth rate, but we don't talk about the 13 million babies who have been killed since the Veil Law. Between the Veil Law and the Badinter Law, the lives of the innocent no longer count for anything in our country." "Legitimising abortion and euthanasia affects society as a whole, because the prohibition of murder is the foundation of all civilisation," Dominique Rey, emeritus bishop of the Diocese of Frejus-Toulon, told the crowd. "The legislature has just enshrined in law the right to end life, to end one's own life when it becomes too difficult to bear." Rey added that recent legislative moves were justified in the name of freedom, arguing that this principle is being used to determine "who has the right to live and who deserves to die." France's lower house passed the 'End-of-Life' bill in May last year. Earlier this month, the Senate's Social Affairs Commission changed the bill's phrasing from 'right to aid in dying' to 'medical assistance in dying', underscoring that it should remain a medical exception rather than a standard civil right. The Senate is scheduled to debate the amended bill starting in January."