BERLIN (AFP) — Germany’s parliament on Friday removed a Nazi-era law that limits the information doctors and clinics can provide about abortion.
One of the most controversial sections of the penal code, Paragraph 219a, prohibits the “promotion” of abortion, a crime punishable by “up to two years of imprisonment or a fine.”
The decision to finally consign the law to history came almost eight decades after its adoption in 1933, shortly after Adolf Hitler had taken power.
“It is high time,” Justice Minister Marco Buschmann told parliament.
It is “absurd” and “no longer in step with the times” that doctors are not allowed to provide complete information on abortion while “every troll and conspiracy theorist” is free to spout views about terminating pregnancies, Buschmann said. READ MORE
