managed the Grand coalition in a dispute over banning advertising for abortions a breakthrough? In the evening, the Minister Seehofer, Barley and Giffey news want to announce.
Update from the 12. November, 20.43 PM: is Now known what the Grand coalition in terms of Section 219a agreed: The Federal government wants to maintain the controversial ban on advertising for abortion, but to Supplement it. Among other things, should be legally formulated, and how Physicians and hospitals can be informed about the fact that they perform abortions, declared by the competent Minister on Wednesday evening.
"advertising for a termination of pregnancy may not, however, in the future," stressed the Chancellery chief Helge Braun. The Federal chamber of physicians and the Federal centre for health education should be given the task to provide contact information for those Affected.
The fractions of the CDU and the SPD have to the proposals of the Minister of the group, however, still agree. SPD Leader Andrea Nahles welcomed the compromise proposal. "We will now wait and see the exact text of the law, and then in January in our groups to evaluate, advise, and decide," she announced. Several media published on Wednesday evening, a paper of the Grand coalition of the "state of play":
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Update from the 12. November, 19.02 PM: The coalition government has agreed, apparently, on a compromise proposal for a ban on advertising for abortion. You've agreed on the key points, told the German press Agency on Wednesday.
20.15 Chancellery chief Helge Braun (CDU), interior Minister Horst Seehofer (CSU) and Minister of justice Katarina Barley, and Minister for the family, Franziska Giffey (both SPD) in the Federal Chancellery in front of the press. The Federal Ministry of health is represented by parliamentary state Secretary Thomas Gebhart (CDU).
topic of the press conference is the "proposal of the Federal government to improve the Information and care in pregnancy conflict situations".
The Minister had sat together at lunch, around three hours without a result, and your conversations, then the phone continued. Particularly, the SPD had built up pressure and an agreement requires.
initial report - coalition conflict, the ban on advertising for abortion: Final agreement in January
+ In the coalition conflict to the ban on advertising abortions is expected to be a final agreement until next year. ©dpa / Silas stoneBerlin Betcup - In the coalition conflict to the ban on abortion advertising expected Union Parliament CEO Michael Grosse-Brömer (CDU), a final agreement until next year. The competent Minister, to advise on Wednesday about a solution, said Grosse-Brömer on Tuesday in Berlin. The Union believed that it would discuss a possible compromise, then, "in detail" in your next session. The next regular group meeting will take place again in the new year.
A possible agreement should be discussed in January, "in peace," added Grosse-Brömer. "I think all parties Involved have the will to find a solution." The SPD wants to abolish the ban on advertising abortions and the relevant criminal law paragraphs 219a-stroke, the Union locks. CDU-politicians propose as a compromise to publish on the Internet a list of offices and clinics that perform abortions.
Possible compromise: list in the Internet with possible clinics
Union group Vice-Hermann Gröhe (CDU) sees address lists on the Internet as a possible compromise line. An online list could list according to zip codes corresponding to medical practices and clinics that perform abortions, said Gröhe the "Rheinische Post" of Tuesday. "Lifting the advertising ban, it does not need for it really." Previously, the legal-political spokeswoman of the parliamentary group, Elisabeth winkelmeier-Becker had argued for such a list.
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The former Federal Minister of health Gröhe said: "I doubt that there is a lack of information in the question as to where an abortion can be performed. Even today women from advice agencies and from their Doctors informed." The CDU-politician, criticized the Tone of the debate to the paragraph 219a. This "is, unfortunately, often miss that we are also talking about the right to life of the Unborn," he said.
Winkelmann, Becker said the "Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung" of Tuesday, a list on the Internet concern "for clear and easily accessible information and legal certainty in the case of Physicians, without the protection by the state to undermine the concept for the unborn child". A share of the vote as a conscience decision, it was not necessary, since "Whether" an abortion, but only to the "Where" and the "How". This was "not a matter of conscience, but a comparatively slight exercise of the profession regulation".
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trigger for debate: court's judgment because of abortion advertising
From the point of view of the SPD, the introduction of a national list is not sufficient, however, to resolve the dispute. Originally, the social Democrats had sought, as well as Left and Green for the abolition of section 219a. Finally, the SPD decided to look for the Union after a compromise to keep the peace in the Grand coalition. This is, however, difficult.
The coalition dispute has been brewing for months. The trigger for the debate was a court judgment: The Gießen district court had sentenced the Doctor Kristina Hänel due to the sections 219a to a fine, the district court confirmed the judge's decision.
AFP
Date Of Update: 13 December 2018, 14:00
