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As of April 1 the French state will reimburse 100 percent of the cost of abortions while teenage girls will be offered free and anonymous contraception.
The French state will reimburse 100 percent of the cost of abortions beginning April 1, while girls aged between 15 and 18 will be offered access to free and anonymous birth control.
The change comes as a law approved in late 2012 comes into force.
Until now, French women over 18 could only receive up to 80 percent of the cost of the procedure, which can run up to 450 euros.
http://www.france24.com/en/20130401-fance-law-allowing-free-abortions-comes-force-contraception-women
Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)Grey
(1,581 posts)idwiyo
(5,113 posts)Fawke Em
(11,366 posts)getting pushed back to the 1800s.
montanacowboy
(6,115 posts)USA becomes more and more of a world wide joke
LadyHawkAZ
(6,199 posts)Donald Ian Rankin
(13,598 posts)The average cost to the state of woman carrying to term solely because she couldn't afford an abortion will be far higher than the cost of paying for an abortion.
When you multiply by the ratio of women who would pay for abortions to women who would have them if they were free but not otherwise, it's slightly less clear-cut, but obviously there will be many other benefits beside saving money.
The Straight Story
(48,121 posts)Not getting pregnant in the first place because you have free or easily available/cheap birth control will help keep the number of abortions down since less people will have unwanted pregnancies.