Legal conditions

• Written consent by the woman
• Pre-abortion consultation (legal counselling) + pre-abortion laboratory tests.

Specific conditions for minors

• None

Mandatory pre-abortion examinations

• Blood group and rhesus factor
• Serological tests (HIV, hepatitis)
• Tests to exclude Sexually Transmitted Infections
• Ultrasound

Involved healthcare professionals

• Surgical abortion: obstetrician/gynaecologist (OB/GYN)
• Medical abortion: OB/GYN

Abortion ratio

• 350 abortions per 1,000 live births (2015).

Abortions “on request”

• 96% of abortions were performed “on request” in 2016.

In 2016, among women who had induced abortion, 54% had at least 1 previous induced abortion.

Women age at first birth

• 28 years of age (2016).

Overall contraception data

• 79% of women aged 16-44 used a contraceptive method during their last sexual intercourse; 4.2% of them used intra-uterine device (IUD) (2014).

Pre-abortion contraception

• 31% of women who had abortion had a contraceptive method before abortion procedure (2016).

Contraception during abortion process

• IUD prescribed during abortion process can be placed in abortion facilities, during abortion or after in first possibility
• Implants are not placed in abortion facilities; they are placed by OB/GYN.

• Abortion is taught during health care professionals’ (HCPs’) medical studies.
• All HCPs have the right to conscientiously object.
• Both surgical and medical abortions are free of charge for resident women only when they are performed due to medical reasons.

– Resident women have to pay around 40 € (medical) or 55 € (surgical) for abortion “on request”.
– Non-resident women (whose social tax is not paid) have to pay around 80 € for medical abortion, or 180 € for surgical abortion.