The first Austrian pilot project for free contraception starts in Vorarlberg. What can such an initiative achieve?
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Since 1970, little has changed in the contraception situation in Austria, as the current contraception report shows. Many women do not use contraception or do so inadequately, and knowledge about contraception is often inadequate. The pilot project “Informed Contraception in Vorarlberg” aims to remedy this by offering women free advice and contraceptives. There is great demand and research is underway to see whether women would use contraception differently if money were no object. Austria is considered a conservative country when it comes to sexual and reproductive rights, but the project is at least a first step in the right direction.
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Susanne has recently had a boyfriend – and has just slept with him for the first time. However, the two teenagers did not use contraception. “The other day I had a headache and took an aspirin,” the 14-year-old would later write in a letter to a German youth magazine. “Fortunately, I didn’t get pregnant. Was it perhaps because of the aspirin? Could you also take headache pills as a contraceptive?”
It’s 1970, pants are flared, and a mustache is all the rage. For a year now, a doctor has been answering questions in the youth magazine under the pseudonym “Dr. Sommer”. Bravo all questions about sex. Questions like those from Susanne. Questions about the first time, about puberty – and about prevention. Because the topic is taboo and there is hardly any information about it.
