Bundestag argues on new rules for abortion and organ donation!

Bundestag argues on new rules for abortion and organ donation!

On Thursday, December 4, 2024, the German Bundestag in Berlin came across an important topic: the debate about the interpreting application for the reform of the abortion regulation. The reform, which is significantly initiated by MPs of the SPD, the Greens and Left, could have consequences for more than 700,000 women in Germany per year. The draft, such as Kathpress , aims to remove abortions from criminal law and this until the twelfth week and after medical indications and after a settlement To make “lawful and punitive”.

The reform also stipulates that the costs for medical interventions should be borne by the health insurance companies in the future, and declares the existing obligation to provide advice, but without the current three -day waiting period. In contrast to this, the concerns of the CDU, AfD and FDP, which argue against the reform. Union boss Friedrich Merz said that a fair and informed debate is necessary, not in the last few meters before the election (February), so that it remains unclear whether a vote on the draft laws will take place in the remaining weeks of session.

doctors without fear of punishment

In addition, the Bundestag documentation archive that the deletion of paragraph 219a of the Criminal Code was passed in June 2022 enables to inform about the various methods of demolition of pregnancy comprehensive and without fear of persecution. This is an attempt to help women become more transparency and information that has so far been hindered by legal restrictions. Federal Minister of Justice Marco Buschmann (FDP) described this as the "highest time" and made it clear that this does not make any commercialized advertising for abortions.

Part of the discourse also revolves around medical education and access to information for women. High time, several MPs emphasized, be it that women and doctors are given the opportunity to clarify abortions. The CDU, on the other hand, accused the coalition of jeopardizing the legal protection of unborn life, while the AfD criticizes the overall pregnancy conflict as insufficient. The Bundestag therefore faces the challenge of developing clear legislation on this sensitive topic in a strongly emotionalized and politically controversial environment.