Company: amendment of IVG law

Company: amendment of IVG law

At the National Assembly, opening the debate on Martine AUBRY’s bill to reform the VEIL law on voluntary termination of pregnancy. The project includes extending the statutory period for IVG from 10 to 12 weeks of pregnancy, and relaxing the conditions for access to IVG for minors. Twenty-five years after the adoption of the VEIL law, the reception facilities for women in need of Ivgs are not always adapted, for lack of means and staff. Today it can take several weeks to get an appointment in a public hospital. Reporting in PARIS, where two-thirds of Ivgs are carried out by the private sector. Interview and reaction of Danièle HASSOUN, gynecologist in charge of the CIVG of the Delafontaine hospital, in SAINT DENIS (Seine Saint Denis), about Martine AUBRY’s bill: "It will change on parental authorization, it will change on the extension of time limits (..) but there is no provision in the law, to my knowledge, of the means to organize the management of women requesting an IVG" Interview and anonymous testimony of Emilie, 17, who has exceeded the legal deadline of ten weeks of pregnancy and must go to Holland to have an abortion. Interview with Françoise BUISSON, conjugal advisor for Family Planning (MFPF) on the problems encountered with their parents by minors applying for IVG.

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File : Abortion in France

Publication date : 29 November 2000