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Advertising ban for abortions: Away with §219a!
Protest against Paragraph 219a of the Criminal Code in front of the Bundesrat in Berlin. The traffic light government wants to abolish the regulation according to which information about abortions is already considered advertising for an intervention.
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It is the first law that the new Justice Minister Marco Buschmann (FDP) wants to tackle, he has already commissioned the first steps: the deletion of §219a. What exactly will abolition do for us – and what will it not? This explains star-Reporter Andrea Ritter, who has been dealing with the topic for a long time.
To this day, doctors are regularly sued for providing information on abortion on their websites. Because the information alone is often interpreted as advertising to you in court. And advertising for abortions is illegal in Germany – according to Section 219a of the Criminal Code. The Ampel-Coalition wants to abolish exactly this paragraph and has also written the plan in the coalition agreement. Many women and people of childbearing age are very happy about it, because it is extremely difficult to find correct, factual information about abortions on the Internet.
Nevertheless, the abolition also causes further discussions, because §218 against it is to remain. This means that abortions are still in a complicated gray area of illegal and unpunished.
The legal situation puts women and doctors in difficult situations
The current legal situation repeatedly presents women with major challenges, so star-Reporter Andrea Ritter. “The problem is that people always pretend that §218 has no more consequences in everyday life. But women have to overcome a large number of bureaucratic hurdles in a situation in which they are very vulnerable and vulnerable.” Instead of criminalizing abortion, one should rather orientate oneself on countries like the Netherlands. “If a state wants children to be born, then it has to establish sensible families, women and social policies and not prohibit anything.”
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