German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 20/30, pp.
2691-2692.
Frau President. Ladies and gentlemen.
With sunglasses, disco music and bobbing heads, celebrating
in joyful anticipation the abolition of the ban on advertisement for abortion –
§219a of the penal code: We all have seen the video of shame of FDP colleague
Lütke and the freely turning democrats.
Freedom for the FDP – before all, for the young colleagues –
is freedom from values, from ties and from responsibility. No wonder that the
FDP Justice Minister Buschmann now manages the abolition of the advertising ban.
Yet he spoke a falsehood: That §219a must go because of a lack of information
on abortion doctors is objectively false.
The counseling offices for the legally prescribed pregnancy
conflict consultations are the places where women are counseled and receive
information. The board of abortion doctors maintains a list with 74 pages, last
updated on April 5, 2022, to be found with three clicks via Google.
And you make vapid the entire debate by the willful mingling
of information and advertisement. Information is sought, advertisement is
offered. Who ascertains the possibilities of an abortion receives information about
which he inquires. If the doctor offers abortions on his website, that is
advertising. And even that is according to current law no longer forbidden.
Information is thus by no means lacking. Robin Alexander of the Welt is right. He says: This reason is
only pretended.
As to the Ampel, it’s about something quite different. Thanks to colleague Jessica Rosenthal of the SPD, I cite:
It is time that #219a is finally history. Yet it is also clear #218 must follow.
It is thus about salami tactics, detail steps – yet the
direction is clear. The Ampel does
not want to restrict but to do away with the dignity and the right to life of
unborn children. No ban on abortion advertisement, then no consultation
obligation and then in conclusion no more Fristenlösung
[loosening abortion ban during first three months]. A moral tabula rasa,
abortion up to the ninth month as demanded by the Jusos.
Leni Breymaier (SPD): That is dumb nonsense!
The Basic Law alone stands in the way of this moral dam
break – and the Federal Constitutional Court. The Federal Constitutional Court
says:
Where human life exists, to it belongs human dignity. To human life also belongs the unborn life.
And further the Constitutional Court:
The right to life of the unborn is the elementary and inalienable right which proceeds from the dignity of human beings.
Thus is abortion always a wrong [Unrecht] and remains so. Only under narrowly specified conditions
is it held to be non-culpable. That is the core of our motion [Drucksache 20/1505]: The consultation as
a prerequisite for the non-culpability of an abortion must ensue with the aim
of defending the unborn life.
Does it do that? Or is it decaying into a formality without
the conviction that it is about the decision of life and death? The contract of
the Ampel coalition foresees a
commission which shall unwind [abwickeln]
the existing abortion law. That is irreconcilable with the decision of the
Federal Constitutional Court and counter to the Basic Law.
Leni Breymaier (SPD): That is not at all right!
Our motion wants to implement the guidelines of the Federal Constitutional Court’s decision. It holds: There is a lack of information – yet not concerning abortion or abortion doctors, but concerning the dignity of unborn life and the right of the unborn to be born. The Federal Constitutional Court clearly said: The state is obligated to uphold and animate in common consciousness the unborn life’s legal claim to protection [Der Staat ist verpflichtet, den rechtlichen Schutzanspruch des ungeborenen Lebens im allgemeinen Bewusstsein zu halten und zu beleben.]
There was an attempt to fulfill this order. Federal Family Minister Rita Süssmuth – long ago – published this brochure: “The Life Before Birth”. Thus, not the clump before birth, but the life before birth.
In 1974, Willy Brandt left the hall prior to the vote on the
Fristenlösung. Willy Brandt was
opposed to abortion because he was a child born out of wedlock and because he
knew: Had his mother thought like you today think, Willy Brandt would not have
been born.
Many thanks.
Tanja Machalet (SPD): Shame on you!
Marianne
Schieder (SPD): That is a shamelessness!
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