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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 .
The Neuwirth Law is a French law which lifted the ban on birth control methods on December 28, 1967, including oral contraception. It was passed by the National Assembly on December 19, 1967. The law is named after Lucien Neuwirth, the Gaullist politician who proposed it. It replaced a law from 1920 that not only forbade all forms of ...
In France, the 1920 Birth Law contained a clause that criminalized dissemination of birth-control literature. [68] That law, however, was annulled in 1967 by the Neuwirth Law , thus authorizing contraception, which was followed in 1975 with the Veil Law .
1967 – In France the Neuwirth Law lifted the ban on birth control methods, including oral contraception, on 28 December 1967. 1967 – The UK Abortion Act (effective 1968) legalized abortion in the United Kingdom under certain grounds (except in Northern Ireland ).
In 1920, new abortion laws prohibited the act of abortion, as well as the use of contraception, on the grounds of needing new babies to make up for the loss of population caused by World War I and to boost the birth rate of France that had been considerably lower than other European countries for over a century.
It was a birth control and eugenic sterilization law that allowed the dissemination of information regarding birth control methods and legalized the practice of birth control. [191] [192] The government cited a growing population of the poor and unemployed as motivators for the law. Changers were made to the Penal Code in 1937 which made ...
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