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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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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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French Public Health CodeIn force
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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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter III: Research on the human embryo, human embryonic stem cells and human induced pluripotent stem cells

Article L2163-2

As stated in Articles 511-1 and 511-1-1 of the French Criminal Code, reproduced below: Art. 511-1-The taking of cells or gametes for the purpose of creating a child genetically identical to another pe…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Compensation for contaminated victims.

Article L3122-2

In their claim for compensation, victims or their heirs must provide proof of having been infected by the human immunodeficiency virus and of having received transfusions of blood products or injectio…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Other control measures.

Article L3114-2

The provisions of Chapter VII of Title V of Book V of the Environment Code relating to pressure vessels are applicable to disinfection equipment.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter VI: Criminal provisions.

Article L3136-2

Article 121-3 of the French Penal Code is applicable taking into account the skills, power and resources available to the perpetrator in the crisis situation that justified the state of health emergen…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Rights of persons under psychiatric care.

Article L3211-2

A person undergoing psychiatric care with their consent for mental disorders is said to be in free psychiatric care. They have the same rights to exercise individual freedoms as those granted to patie…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter V: Saint-Barthélemy

Article L3251-2

In the event of imminent danger to the patient's health or to the safety of persons, certified by a medical opinion, the representative of the State in Saint-Barthélemy will take all necessary provisi…

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