Cenk Uygur
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Free Birth Control for 15 Year Olds in France
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December 23, 2012
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4:10Now Playing"Beginning next year, young women in France between the ages of 15 and 18 will have access to birth control free of charge, and without parental notification. The French government says the new measure is intended to reduce pregnancies in this age group that result from a mixture of ignorance, taboo and lack of access to contraception.
One place where information is available on birth control, abortion and sexual abuse is a family planning clinic in a gritty neighborhood in the east of Paris."*
In France, free birth control will soon be offered for teenagers starting at 15. Why is it needed, and will it set a precedent? Cenk Uygur, Ana Kasparian, and Ben Mankiewicz break it down.
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