Stakeholder Summary >> Spain, Review Documentation, 21st session, January 2015

CESCR nJoint Submission 8 (JS8) reported that 1,400 adolescents gave birth each year, 13,000 young women had abortions, 35.6 per cent of young people between the ages of 15 and 19 did not use contraception and 23.1 per cent of young people used some form of contraception, but not in the appropriate manner. In that context, JS8 believed that access to contraception was fundamental to the exercise of reproductive rights. Notwithstanding the fact that such access was guaranteed by law, it was limited owing to significant disparities in the coverage provided by the Autonomous Communities. [Para 60]