FEMEN rings the bell: Naked activists defend right to abortion (VIDEO, PHOTOS)

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Published time: April 10, 2012 18:02
Edited time: April 11, 2012 10:13

Activists of women's rights movement FEMEN shout slogans as they protest at the St. Sofia Cathedral in central Kiev April 10, 2012 (Reuters/Gleb Garanich; FEMEN video from vimeo.com)

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Members of FEMEN, who are famous for staging controversial naked protests, switched from political issues and slashing domestic violence to defending Ukrainian women's right to abortion. They chose the country’s main Christian cathedral as a venue.

Five FEMEN activists climbed to the Cathedral of St. Sophia in the center of Kiev to protest a proposed legislation that would ban abortions in Ukraine.

The girls got naked, rolled down banner “STOP” from the balcony of the cathedral and began ringing church bells to attract the attention of those passing by. They also shouted a slogan which can be translated as “our children – our choice.”

The Cathedral of St. Sophia is one of the main sightseeing attractions in Kiev, so security and police were not long in coming.

Four activists were detained and brought to the local police station, while one escaped.

On their blog, FEMEN claims that the moving force behind the legislation is the 'Christian community,' and that the goal of their action was to draw public attention to the conspiracy of church and state.

FEMEN activists are used to stripping out in the cold. This winter the group has carried out a series of politically-motivated naked protests throughout Europe. In most cases, girls were detained and released shortly after, but the protest in Belarus, FEMEN claims, ended up with Belarusian KGB officers kidnapping activists, threatening them with knives and cutting their hair.

Reuters/Gleb Garanich

Photo from femen.livejournal.com

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Hans (unregistered) 21.04.2012 20:23

So in 25 years Ukraine will be as muslim as western Europe is today due to low native fertility rate. Wonder if this activist group get the same zionist funding as such groups had in western Europe during the zionist student protest movement of 1968 with the Sarkozy reptile leading the goyim ruin. If Europeans wont have babys we deserve to be replaced by muslims for sure. Muslims says thank you to all European non-femine-feminist. Lol!

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notahick 15.04.2012 04:14

i can't believe the amount of redneck comments on here for such a liberal and independantwebsite. maybe femen should start protesting that against these hicks breeding

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Truth Hurts 14.04.2012 17:55

Maybe it will be better to get those murderers pushed down from those top roof, after all it is same as 'ABORTION', how does that feel?
The same treatment should be given to all those professional murderers that hide under being 'expert' on how the endless earth should not contain more people, yet they want to LIVE! How sick and evil, our mothers went through the pain of carrying us and giving birth to us, yet with joy protected us at the helpless state at their own detriment. Now the smart fools, that their mothers allowed to live, never want to see others live.. how insane is that? Well, the Western height of hypocrisy, forcefully exported around the sane world, and easily digested by few no lives like these gangs of nolives!

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