Aliette Espieux
French anti-abortion activist
Aliette Espieux (born 5 May 1999) is a French pro-life activist.
She has been the spokesperson for the March for Life since September 2019. She also has ties to the far right, including some radical groups, and notably ran as a candidate on a National Rally (RN) list in Lyon's 5th arrondissement during the 2020 municipal elections.
Early life and education
Espieux was born on 5 May 1999, in Carpentras (Vaucluse), She is the youngest of thirteen children (eight sons and five daughters) of Bruno Espieux, a colonel in the French Air Force and Knight of the Legion of Honour, and his wife, Christine, née Cumunel.
A devout Catholic, like her parents, she discovered the opposition to abortion and euthanasia by attending several marches with her family during her childhood. She says she was particularly affected at the age of six by a rosary organized by the embryologist Xavier Dor (1929-2020), during which counter-protesters allegedly assaulted participants.
Political Career
In 2019, she became spokesperson for the March for Life, a Catholic anti-abortion movement. She seeks to modernize and rejuvenate the movement..
In 2020, she supported the National Rally candidate Olivier Pirra in the municipal elections in Lyon's 5th arrondissement, appearing sixth on his "For the Love of Lyon" list.
She also volunteers with the Jérôme Lejeune Foundation and the NGO SOS Chrétiens d'Orient, and is close to several far-right organizations, notably Academia Christiana, for whom she gave a lecture in 2022.
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