Organisation of (specific) services

A. Imhoff-Köprülü

Profamilia chorweiler e.V., Cologne, Germany

The author reports about an advisory centre for pregnancy, conflict of pregnancy, family planning, contraception, and interruption, called Profamilia chorweiler e.V. (e.V. means: ‘registered society’), placed in a district of Cologne, where more than half of the inhabitants are not German natives. She will give you an idea about the multiprofessional team working there, how they have been working, the variety of consultants coming, and why both the German society and the politicians think that it is important to have such advisory centres for women (and couples), when they are in a conflict of having a baby or not.

In her report, she will also look back on the 52 years since the Profamilia society was founded. She will tell you about the Profamilia ideology of contraception and family planning, about its organisation, its legitimisation and its financing.

In the appendix you will find (1) an extract of a law concerning Profamilia’s work, and (2) a list of Profamilia’s offered services.

Note: (1) and (2) are not available