The negotiations were tedious. But now the coalition compromise to the ban on advertising for abortion. Today, the Bundestag agrees. The Opposition goes too fast.
Cornelia Möhring is really upset when she talks about the reform plans of the Grand coalition in the paragraph 219a. The woman behind the compromise between the Union and the SPD referred to the women’s political spokeswoman of the Left party as a “Super-scandal”. She stressed: “We need the right to decide about our body itself.” She was horrified that the SPD had embarked on a “rotten compromise”.
The SPD wanted more
The SPD parliamentary group in the Bundestag, wanted to emphasize the Criminal law clauses, which regulates the ban on advertising for abortion, actually, completely. The social Democrats failed due to resistance from the Union that wanted to leave everything the same.
Demonstration gegen §219a
in The case of Kristina Hänel
trigger the months-long discussions was the case of Kristina Hänel. The Giessen Doctor had informed on its website that it performs abortions, and to request further information by E-Mail to send. Radical abortion opponents showed Hänel. Judgment: 6000 Euro Fine.
Hänel is disappointed by the reform plans, which is to be decided by the Bundestag today. Doctors would still be held as a potential criminal, so the Physician. And, although it is a descendant of only the medical duty to inform the patients.
goal: legal certainty for health professionals
Because of the painfully negotiated compromise between the Union and the SPD allows Doctors and clinics, although, in the future, to inform you that you perform abortions, but not about the How, what methods to use. That would be a criminal offence.
Also planned: The Federal chamber of physicians is to keep an up to date list of the doctors in the country perform abortions. For the SPD party and parliamentary group head of Andrea Nahles “a good compromise” that will give Doctors legal certainty. In addition to creating a right to information for women, it did not exist before. It was a progress.