Also, I believe the pro-natalist policies are focused on French citizens, not visitors.
Sorry about the link.
It worked yesterday, and I posted it. Of course, maybe there were a lot of hits on an otherwise academic site and they pulled it.
As to visitors, the same laws apply.
For example: parental notification. It is a crime to perform an abortion in France on a minor without parental consent, and the law very specifically applies to foreigners and travellers in France as well as citizens.
France came late to the abortion game, and does not like abortion. Nor will it permit abortion mills to operate. There are strict requirements on WHERE an abortion can be performed, and the laws impose a 25% limit on the total abortion procedures that can be performed by any establishment. So, for example, a hospital or clinic may not have more than 25% of its procedures be abortions in any year. The other 75% of procedures must be something else. Etc. Women seeking an abortion in France have to have a one week waiting period, and the initial interview must provide extensive, state generated information on all of the alternatives to abortion.
Also, although this is difficult to track exactly, the law in France prohibits abortion as a contraceptive purpose. Thus, a woman who has had serial abortions will be turned away in France, because she uses abortion as post-pregnancy birth control. The law prohibits that.
It is a strict law, and it is not likely to get any weaker.
Much like the drug laws, which are perennially tougher in France than in the surrounding countries.
The French are not economically conservative, but are surprisingly conservative on moral matters, heterosexual sex excepted.
Sorry about the link.
It worked yesterday, and I posted it. Of course, maybe there were a lot of hits on an otherwise academic site and they pulled it.
As to visitors, the same laws apply.
For example: parental notification. It is a crime to perform an abortion in France on a minor without parental consent, and the law very specifically applies to foreigners and travellers in France as well as citizens.
France came late to the abortion game, and does not like abortion. Nor will it permit abortion mills to operate. There are strict requirements on WHERE an abortion can be performed, and the laws impose a 25% limit on the total abortion procedures that can be performed by any establishment. So, for example, a hospital or clinic may not have more than 25% of its procedures be abortions in any year. The other 75% of procedures must be something else. Etc. Women seeking an abortion in France have to have a one week waiting period, and the initial interview must provide extensive, state generated information on all of the alternatives to abortion.
Also, although this is difficult to track exactly, the law in France prohibits abortion as a contraceptive purpose. Thus, a woman who has had serial abortions will be turned away in France, because she uses abortion as post-pregnancy birth control. The law prohibits that.
It is a strict law, and it is not likely to get any weaker.
Much like the drug laws, which are perennially tougher in France than in the surrounding countries.
The French are not economically conservative, but are surprisingly conservative on moral matters, heterosexual sex excepted.