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Abortion > Regulations

 

The laws dated January 17, 1975, December 31, 1979 and July 4, 2001 authorize the practice of abortions under certain specific conditions.

An abortion can be practiced at the request of a pregnant woman whose state places her in "a situation of distress": she is the only judge of this situation. It is, before anything else, a personal decision.

The intervention should imperatively be practiced:

 by a doctor
 in a public hospital or approved private hospital
 before the end of the 12th week of pregnancy (being 14 weeks after the start of the last period): this is a imperative maximum deadline stipulated by the law

Or, since July 2004, for the medical method only:

by an approved gynecologist or a generalist doctor
in his office
before the end of the 5th week of pregnancy (being 7 weeks after the start of the last period).

The law guarantees the respect of all human beings as soon as life has begun. It doesn't seek to harm this principle except in the case of necessity and in accordance with conditions defined by the present law.
Art. 1er

The pregnant woman whose state places her in a situation of distress can ask a doctor to terminate her pregnancy.
Art. 4 - L162.1

At the first visit, the doctor solicited by a pregnant woman seeking to terminate her pregnancy should:
1) inform her of the medical risks that she runs for herself and for future pregnancies, and the biological gravity of the intervention she is requesting;
2) give her the guidebook.
Art. 4 - L162.3

Do everything you need to do as soon as possible.


If you are a minor and unmarried: the law allows for the possibility of a doctor to perform an abortion to the benefit of a non-emancipated minor without getting parental consent when dialogue with the family is proved to be impossible, and this at the sole request of the minor. However, in this case, the minor must be accompanied by an adult of her choice, an adult from her entourage or from Family Planning, for example: the role of this adult is limited to a mission of accompanying and psychological support; he doesn't intervene in the decisions and has no civil or penal liability in the matter.
Coverage is total for non-emancipated minors without parental consent: no bill is presented for any of the medical or counseling consultations, the pre-anesthetic consultation, care and hospitalization costs or concerning a medical abortion. The documents necessary for the reimbursement of the practitioners are completed following a special procedure, anonymously.

If you are a foreigner: the rules of common law are applicable to foreign women. Actually, on the occasion of the new codification of the legislative part of the public health code (ordinance n° 2000-548 dated June 15, 2000), and in order to adapt French law to the provisions of the European Human Rights Convention, the specific conditions previously fixed for foreign women giving access to pregnancy termination (previous article L. 162.11 of the public health code), were suppressed. Due to this, the specific residence modalities fixed by regulatory path (decree n° 75-354 dated May 13, 1975) are no longer in effect. Practicing an abortion on foreign women is therefore not subject to any condition of length or regularity of stay in France.
Bill of the General Health Direction n° 2001-467 dated September 28, 2001, Bulletin Officiel n° 2001-43.

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