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Kurt Wünsche from the Liberal Democratic Party of Germany (LDPD), who served as GDR Minister of Justice from January to August 1990 under Prime Ministers Hans Modrow and Lothar de Maizière, suggested that the right to abortion should be included in a new all-German constitution[44] or that different legal situations should continue to exist. [49]
East Germany legalized elective abortion until 12 weeks of pregnancy in 1972, in the Volkskammer's only non-unanimous vote ever in the first 40 years of its existence. After West Germany followed suit in 1974, its new law was struck down in 1975 by the Constitutional Court as inconsistent with the human rights guarantee of the constitution.
The Commission on Reproductive Self-Determination and Reproductive Medicine was set up by the German government last year after the coalition government of the centre-left Social Democratic Party ...
Abortion continued to be limited to those grounds in Northern Ireland as the issue was devolved to the Northern Ireland Parliament. [42] 'Yes to the child, trust, life, help, no to abortion', poster from Bavaria, 1987. Abortion on request during the first 12 weeks of a pregnancy was permitted in East Germany from 1972.
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 ...
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 1975 Abortion Decision of the FCC set in place a legal framework granting no exceptions for abortion, making any action to kill an unborn child grounds for legal conviction. [1] The president of the FCC during the decision was Ernst Benda. Benda was president of the FCC from 1971 to 1983, when the Abortion Decision of 1975 was made.
The Communist Party of Germany and the Socialist Reich Party are prohibited political parties in Germany.A third party, Die Heimat — formerly known as the National Democratic Party of Germany — is classified as "anti-constitutional" and is disallowed from receiving public campaign funding, though its activities are otherwise unrestricted.