According to police reports, hundreds of opponents of abortion and counter-demonstrators took to the streets in Berlin. Shortly before the start of a demonstration at the Brandenburg Gate entitled “March for Life” by the Federal Association for the Right to Life (BVL), the number of participants was in the “lower four-digit range,” a police spokesman said.
So far, there have been no special incidents. The demonstrators demanded a ban on abortions. One poster read, for example, “Welcome life – don’t end it.”
According to police, a counter-event entitled “Action Day for Sexual Self-Determination” at the Brandenburg Gate attracted a mid-three-digit number of participants. The demonstrators said they wanted to draw attention to “the right to physical self-determination and the legalization of abortion.”
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