HS survey Answer the survey: What happened when the pregnancy came as a shock?

Are you been pregnant so that the pregnancy was not desired? How did it affect you?

In January, decision-makers will be selected for future welfare areas. One thing on the table of politicians that is small but important in euros is free contraception: at what age should it be offered and to what extent?

Until now, young people have been in a different position depending on the municipality in which they were born.

In Vantaa, for example, free contraception has been widely offered to young adults. Studies also show that it affects the number of abortions. In other municipalities, free contraception has been offered to a smaller number, not in many municipalities at all.

Testing free of charge nationwide is in the government program and new municipalities have been able to apply for the trial this year.

That is why we are interested in the realities in which politicians will soon make decisions.

Of course, it is also a question of preventing sexually transmitted diseases, but the HS will be tackling unwanted pregnancies more broadly from the beginning of the year and both their causes and consequences.

Tell me therefore to us, what happened to you when you became pregnant without your will? Did you get support, would you have missed it more?

We are looking for answers, especially from the Helsinki Metropolitan Area and Uusimaa, from young adults.

The purpose of the survey is to find interviewees for the issue. Because the subject is deeply personal, we will not publish your name in the story without your permission. However, HS never cites interviewees whose name and contact information are not known to the editor.

We hope you tell the basics: what happened and when, what followed. Even more interested in what you think of what happened afterwards.

You can answer the survey below the story or send an e-mail to [email protected]. There is a response time until the end of the year.