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In 2022 France began to introduce free birth control to women between the ages of 18 and 25 years in order to reduce the number of unwanted pregnancies in the age group. [4] The French government will provide access to birth control pills, intrauterine devices, contraceptive patches and injectable birth control. [5]
Abortion in France (3 C, 7 P) Pages in category "Birth control in France" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total.
Birth control, also known as contraception, anticonception, and fertility control, is the use of methods or devices to prevent pregnancy. [1] [2] Birth control has been used since ancient times, but effective and safe methods of birth control only became available in the 20th century. [3]
2000 – The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission of the United States ruled that companies that provided insurance for prescription drugs to their employees but excluded birth control were violating the Civil Rights Act of 1964. [120] 2001 – The ten-week limit on abortion in France was extended to the twelfth week. [121]
The first permanent birth control clinic was established in Britain in 1921 by the birth control campaigner Marie Stopes, in collaboration with the Malthusian League. Stopes, who exchanged ideas with Sanger, [ 49 ] wrote her book Married Love on birth control in 1918; - it was eventually published privately due to its controversial nature. [ 50 ]
As the birth control societies spread across Europe, so did birth control clinics. The first birth control clinic in the world was established in the Netherlands in 1882, run by the Netherlands' first female physician, Aletta Jacobs. [20] The first birth control clinic in England was established in 1921 by Marie Stopes, in London. [21]
Blue-white-red, Marianne, Liberté-Égalité-Fraternité, the Republic: these national symbols represent France, as a state and its values. Since September 1999, they have been combined in a new "identifier" created by the Plural Left government of Lionel Jospin under the aegis of the French Government Information Service (SIG) and the public ...
The symbol was used to represent the sovereign authority of the King over France during the reign of the Bourbon monarchs. [25] However, the monarchy was not the only ruling power in French history to use the symbol of Hercules to declare its power. During the Revolution, the symbol of Hercules was revived to represent nascent revolutionary ideals.