Question 28375 — voluntary termination of pregnancy

Summary

Mr. Hugues Renson questions the Minister of Solidarity and Health on the difficulties of access to voluntary termination of pregnancy (abortion) due to the disruptions caused by the health crisis. Indeed, we are witnessing a worrying reduction in the use of abortion, due in particular to confinement due to confinement and the reassignment of nursing staff to priority care for people infected with covid-19. If the abortion professionals have reorganized the care of women in this particular context, they ask, to limit the demand on hospital teams, that abortions can be authorized by medical means at home up to nine weeks of amenorrhea, or seven weeks of pregnancy, which is validated by the WHO. They also ask, to limit the movements of women during their abortion, that minors are exempted from the 48-hour period currently imposed on them before their abortion and that they can benefit from an abortion immediately after their first consultation and, finally, that the legal period for an abortion is extended by two weeks exceptionally. The concrete consequences of a lack of access to abortion being considerable, emergency measures are necessary to protect women's rights, such as the measures already put in place. place to fight against domestic violence or to guarantee access to the contraceptive pill. According to a press release dated March 23, 2020 from the State Secretariat responsible for equality between women and men and the fight against discrimination, terminations of pregnancies are considered urgent interventions, their continuity must be ensured and, even in times of pandemic and confinement, the right of women to disposing of their body should not be called into question. He therefore asks him what measures he intends to take urgently to maintain access to abortion during the health crisis, in order to prevent the difficulties observed from forcing women to maintain their pregnancies against their will, endangering their autonomy and the future of children born in these conditions.

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