Xavier Dor
French physician (1929-2020)
Xavier Dor (30 January 1929 – 4 April 2020) was a French embryologist, known for his activism against abortions.
Personal life
Dor was born into a Catholic family. His father was the director of the Compagnie Générale Transatlantique. He had four children with his wife, Françoise Dugé de Bernonville, daughter of Jacques de Bernonville. Dor was a doctor specializing in embryology and practiced at the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris. He was also a researcher in cardiac embryology at Inserm and a lecturer at Pierre and Marie Curie University. Dor died on 4 April 2020 in Paris from COVID-19 at age 91 during the pandemic.
Anti-abortion activism
Dor was the founder and president of the SOS tout-petits association. He often led protests in front of hospitals which carried out abortions. He participated in several dozen of these protests.
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