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 may only take place in a health establishment.
It may only take place in a public or private health establishment, as part of consultations, which may be carried out remotely, or as part of an agreement between the practitioner or midwife or a family planning or education centre or a health centre and such an establishment, under conditions laid down by decree of the Conseil d’Etat. When the voluntary interruption of pregnancy is carried out by medication within the framework of such an agreement, it may be carried out until the end of the seventh week of pregnancy.