Women's Health: For a free contraception

For a free contraception there is one of the two mutual calls, MGEN and LMDE (Mutual students) to defend women's rights to health like closure of family planning, increasing the number of teenage abortions, inadequate management of contraceptives by Medicare, non-existent sex education in schools ...

For over forty years, fighting for the succession rights of women and especially for the free access to contraception and abortion have made considerable progress. Today, says the MGEN, the means and the current organization of the health care system no longer guarantee access for all women to these basic rights:

■ The non-reimbursement of certain forms of contraception does not a real choice of supply and demand oriented, organizing and maintaining in a model where the contraceptive pill and the IUD are the most commonly prescribed

■ The number and capacity of planning centers in the territory does not guarantee that all women, especially younger ones, to be counseled and free access to contraception and anonymously

■ Access to abortion is not equal throughout. Hospital reorganization and closing of abortion clinics only aggravate an already complicated situation. Indeed, many women can not get an appointment within the time provided by law because of lack of staff and / or refusal of some practitioners to perform abortions

Mutuals talk of "double down concern," back of the right to contraception and declining abortion rights and ask the government to develop prevention programs for all ages, from kindergarten to old age , based on relationships with others, respect for life choices, sexual orientation and gender identities. Mutual remember the law of July 4, 2001, which provides for the obligation to "provide information and sex education in schools, colleges and high schools, with at least three annual sessions and groups homogeneous age. "

Ensure gynecological health of all women throughout all ages and life by the presence of practitioners providing such monitoring throughout without extra billing and development of training of practitioners and midwives.
Guarantee of all forms of contraception available free, including male and female condoms as part of health insurance could allow every woman access to means of contraception that suits them, to preserve his privacy and so would improve the health status of women.

Finally, the call for the mutual guarantee of the right to abortion throughout the country with access to nearby structures capable of supporting women in the time allowed by law.

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