Friday, June 24, 2022 , the Bundestag to lift the ban on advertising for abortion . With the votes of the SPD, Alliance 90/The Greens, FDP and Die Linke against the votes of the CDU/CSU and AfD, the MPs approved the federal government's bill in a version amended by the committee "to amend the criminal code - lifting the ban on advertising for the termination of pregnancy (Section 219a StGB), to amend the Medicines Advertising Act and to amend the Introductory Act to the Criminal Code ( 20/1635 , 20/1980 , 20/2137 No. 8). The decision was based on a recommendation from the Legal Affairs Committee ( 20/2404 ).

However, a motion presented by the CDU/CSU parliamentary group entitled “Strengthening women's interests, maintaining protection of the unborn child” ( 20/1017 ) was rejected by the majority of the SPD, Greens, FDP and Left. The applicants voted for this, the AfD abstained. The SPD, Greens, FDP, CDU/CSU and AfD voted against the motion of the Die Linke parliamentary group entitled “Repeal Paragraph 219a of the Criminal Code – ensure self-determination, freedom of choice and adequate supply” ( 20/1736 With the broad majority of the other parliamentary groups, two motions from the AfD parliamentary group were also passed with the titles “Paragraph 219a of the Criminal Code is preserved and the mandate to protect unborn life is revived in general consciousness” ( 20/1505 ) and “State duty to protect unborn life – no repeal of the ban the advertising for abortion according to Section 219a of the Criminal Code ( 20/1866 ) was rejected. These votes were also based on a resolution recommendation from the Legal Affairs Committee ( 20/2404 ).

Source: German Bundestag


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