No, women in Germany are not in the starting blocks to finally be able to relax and enjoy an abortion. And no, the few doctors and clinics who perform abortions at all in compliance with the twelve-week period and the indication regulation are probably not feverishly calculating how much advertising they are getting on Instagram and in football stadiums for their budget. One could almost believe that in view of what Karin Prien (CDU) or Christina Trautner (CSU) say about
Tag: 219a
Bundestag on abortion: heated debate on paragraph 219a
Status: 05/13/2022 4:33 p.m
The coalition agreement of the Ampel government envisages removing the advertising ban for abortions from the penal code. In a first debate in the Bundestag, the opposition voiced some severe criticism.
To remove the advertising ban for abortions is a legislative project from the coalition agreement. Federal Minister of Justice Marco Buschmann (FDP) wants women to be as informed as possible before they decide – including about the details of
About abortion: Paragraph 219a – the debate, the points of contention
Status: 04/20/2022 10:36 a.m
The draft law for the abolition of paragraph 219a – the advertising ban for abortions – has been submitted to the Federal Council for comment. The debate on this in the Bundestag is likely to be tough again.
At the beginning of March, the federal cabinet initiated the abolition of paragraph 219a – the advertising ban for abortions. The goal: Before the summer break, the regulation according to which doctors
Paragraph 219a: Get rid of it – opinion
Repeal of Section 219a: Away from taboo
comment
As of: 01/17/2022 7:38 p.m
The planned repeal of paragraph 219a does not solve the medical care problem with abortions. But it is a start to stop making the subject taboo.
“We have to adapt the law of the present,” says the justice minister today. As a woman and as a mother, I say: that’s right, finally. You have to think about it again: In a society in which there is
Podcast “important today”: §219a – Put an end to the ban on advertising for abortions!
Podcast
“important today”
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.
© Wolfgang Kumm / DPA
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
Abortion law: Buschmann calls for rapid deletion of paragraph 219a
The designated Federal Minister of Justice Marco Buschmann wants to abolish the controversial paragraph as quickly as possible. It prevents doctors from giving open information about abortion. That was “intolerable,” said Buschmann.
Deletion of paragraph 219a: good, but not sufficient
Status: 11/27/2021 6:29 p.m.
If doctors publicly inform about abortions, this has so far been a criminal offense. The traffic light parties now want to abolish the corresponding paragraph 219a. But this does not solve the main problem.
Until now, it has often been difficult for anyone who accidentally becomes pregnant and wants to find out who can help them. Because so far, doctors have not been allowed to provide public information about an
Abortions: Paragraph 219a is deleted, but that is not enough
opinion
Look at the criminal code
Is abortion still a criminal offense? The problem remains with paragraph 218
Protesters protest in front of the regional court in Giessen in December 2019 against paragraphs 218 and 219a of the criminal code. The traffic light government wants to remove paragraph 219a and thus the ban on advertising for abortions from the code. The equally controversial Paragraph 218 should be retained.
© Boris Roessler / Picture Alliance
On the abolition of 219a: Interview with the doctor Kristina Hänel – culture
Doctors have so far not been allowed to advertise abortions – according to the coalition agreement, that should change. The doctor Kristina Hänel on her long fight against §219a – and what really helps women with the difficult decision.
Interview by
Laura Hertreiter and Nele Pollatschek
Abortions are illegal in Germany, and it looks like it will stay that way for the time being. Nevertheless, the general practitioner Kristina Hänel celebrated when the topic was mentioned in the new coalition
Advertising ban for abortions: Many Twitter users celebrate the end of §219a
Ban on advertising for abortions
“The Middle Ages are over”: Many Twitter users celebrate the deletion of paragraph 219a
What many women have long been demanding, the traffic light coalition now wants to implement: the deletion of paragraph 219a (Smbolbild)
© Michele Tantussi / Getty Images
The fact that the traffic light coalition wants to abolish the controversial advertising ban on abortion with paragraph 219a leads to much cheers on Twitter – but not everyone.
The prospective traffic light coalition