Overview
- The regional health agency confirmed the definitive shutdown after the clinic lost Haute Autorité de Santé certification and its operator could no longer sustain the activity.
- The non-profit facility is set to cease operations on Friday night, October 31, ending childbirth services at the site.
- Hundreds of staff, former patients, and activists, including members of Femen, gathered Thursday in Les Lilas to protest the decision.
- Health Minister Stéphanie Rist said a women's health center will replace the clinic to provide pre- and post-natal care but not deliveries.
- Founded in 1964, the clinic pioneered less-medicalized childbirth and supported reproductive-rights activism, and roughly 75 permanent staff now face uncertainty.