The National Assembly extends full coverage of contraception to women aged 18 to 25 – franceinfo

The measure, intended to come into force on January 1, potentially concerns three million young women. The National Assembly unanimously adopted on the night of Friday 22 to Saturday 23 October the full coverage of contraception for women aged 18 to 25, as part of the 2022 Social Security budget project.

Contraception is already free for minors. The Minister of Health Olivier Véran announced in September this next extension to 18-25 years old, stressing that contraception was in “recoil” in young women, and that “the first reason is the renunciation for financial reasons”.

Health insurance will cover 100% and third-party payment of the costs necessary for contraception: one consultation per year with a doctor or a midwife, the related biological examinations, as well as the contraceptives themselves – certain contraceptive pills, contraceptive implants, IUDs, diaphragms and hormonal emergency contraception. The device will cost 21 million euros annually.

Former LREM member Albane Gaillot sought in vain to extend this coverage to all possible contraceptives, including the female condom, the vaginal ring or spermicides.

MEPs, on the other hand, have planned a government report to Parliament on the means to be implemented to develop male contraception. And at the initiative of the LREM group, the coverage of the preventive consultation in matters of sexual health, for young girls under 18, has been extended to boys up to 25 years of age.