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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Prenatal diagnosis.

Article L2161-2

As stated in Article 511-21 of the French Penal Code, reproduced below:"Failure to comply with the provisions of articles L. 2131-4 and L. 2131-4-1 relating to pre-implantation diagnosis is punishable…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Medically assisted procreation.

Article L2162-2

…roduced below:"Obtaining human embryos without complying with the conditions set out in Articles L. 2141-5 and L. 2141-6 of the Public Health Code is punishable by seven years' imprisonment and a fine…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Health establishments receiving pregnant women.

Article L2322-2

The authorised facilities that private health establishments are required to have in order to carry out voluntary terminations of pregnancy are set by decree.

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Chapter III: Access to non-identifying data and the identity of the third-party donor

Article L2143-2

…majority to the identity and non-identifying data of the third party donor as defined in article L. 2143-3.Persons wishing to donate gametes or offer their embryo for reception shall expressly consent…

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Chapter V: Voluntary termination of pregnancy.

Article L2445-2

For the application in New Caledonia and French Polynesia of article L. 2212-4, the words: "or any other person qualified in a family information, consultation or counselling establishment, a family p…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Common provisions.

Article L2214-2

Under no circumstances should voluntary interruption of pregnancy be used as a means of birth control. To this end, the Government shall take all necessary measures to develop the widest possible info…

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Chapter I: General principle.

Article L2211-2

The principle mentioned in article L. 2211-1 may not be infringed except where necessary and in accordance with the conditions defined by this Title. The teaching of this principle and its consequence…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Conditions for the authorisation and operation of health establishments, medical biology laboratories and other organisations

Article L2142-2

Any establishment, organisation, health cooperation group or laboratory authorised to carry out medically assisted procreation activities is required to submit an annual activity report to the regiona…

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Chapter I: Health-related children's homes.

Article L2321-2

Medical children's homes are permanent or temporary establishments designed to receive, on medical certificate, children or adolescents aged between three and seventeen, with a view to providing them…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Interruption performed before the end of the fourteenth week of pregnancy.

Article L2212-2

Voluntary termination of a pregnancy can only be carried out by a doctor or a midwife, a medical profession in its own right, wherever they practise. When a midwife performs a surgical abortion, it ma…

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