Access to contraceptives in Europe remains “very uneven”, according to a new report from the European Parliamentary Forum for Sexual and Reproductive Rights (EPF), launched on 8 February at the European Parliament in Brussels, ahead of Valentine’s Day.
The sixth edition of EPF’s Contraception Policy Atlas, which rates 46 countries throughout Europe, shows that the best-performing countries include the United Kingdom, France and Belgium. Countries at the bottom of the ranking are Poland, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Hungary.
“The Contraception Policy Atlas reveals who is improving and who is backsliding in providing women the means to make decisions over their own bodies,” said Sophie in ’t Veld, a Dutch member of the European parliament. “With this Atlas, we can see that we are far from that goal.”
