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The 1975 decision set a precedent for subsequent abortion law reforms in Germany following the 1990 reunification. A primary instance where the abortion decision of 1975 was used as precedent in reunified Germany was the Judgement of 28 May 1993, which again declared abortions illegal and inaccessible. [1]
The Constitutional Court decided a year later to maintain its earlier decision that the constitution protected the fetus from the moment of conception, but stated that it is within the discretion of parliament not to punish abortion in the first trimester, [citation needed] provided that the woman had submitted to state-regulated counseling ...
The legal situation created by the law in the GDR, which was the first time in German legal history that a time limit for abortion came into force, subsequently influenced the debate on the amendment of Section 218 of the German Criminal Code and the resulting legislative initiatives in the Federal Republic of Germany, as well as the revision ...
In March, France became the world’s first country to enshrine abortion rights in its constitution, the culmination of an effort that began in direct response to the US Supreme Court’s decision ...
An independent commission reviewing abortion law in Germany recommended Monday that the procedure be made legal during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy. Currently, abortion is considered illegal in ...
The Federal Constitutional Court (German: Bundesverfassungsgericht ... A well-known example of this procedure was the 1975 abortion decision, ...
KARLSRUHE/BERLIN Germany (Reuters) -Germany can cut off public funding to the radical right-wing party Die Heimat, the Constitutional Court said on Tuesday in a landmark ruling which stirred up a ...
The European Court of Human Rights, summarising its abortion-related case law, in the Vo v France ruling in 2004, noted the "diversity of views on the point at which life begins, of legal cultures and of national standards of protection" and therefore, in a European context, the nation-state "has been left with considerable discretion in the ...