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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 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.
Germany should overturn its 150-year old ban on abortions and make terminations legal within the first 12 weeks of pregnancy, a government-appointed panel of experts said on Monday.
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 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.
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 ...